According to developer Simon Willison, there's a surprisingly elegant way to fine-tune Cloudflare's bot protection. By setting a rule that triggers CAPTCHA only on search URLs containing an ampersand—a signal of more complex, crawler-like queries—he's blocked aggressive scrapers while keeping simple searches like '?q=lemur' free and clear. It's the kind of small technical tweak that can save users from constant verification prompts.

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