Lately, whenever I try to open a submission, Cloudflare sometimes stops me for verification. I prove I'm human, and as a reward, it teleports me to the Codeforces homepage. Thanks, I guess? I never asked for a tour.
The worst part is when this happens during contests. Sometimes I just need to check one of my previous submissions, and suddenly I'm busy proving my humanity while the clock keeps ticking. Cloudflare is quietly eating my contest time, and my rating is paying the price.
And honestly, who's scraping my submissions mid-contest? What would a bot even do with my WA on test 2? Judge me? (If it does, it's not the only one.)
AtCoder seems to handle this differently by preventing Cloudflare challenges for contestants during contests. Could Codeforces consider something similar?
Here's my humble request: Codeforces, please nerf Cloudflare, at least for rated participants during contests. Let us check our own submissions without a surprise identity crisis.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you've faced the same issue—or if you're secretly a bot.









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