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People who use privacy tools

Privacy tools are not treated as bots.

  • Scoring. Private Relay, VPN and Tor addresses never score below 0.3 unless their reputation is bad. The ANONYMIZER reason records that the address is on a privacy network; it is informational.
  • Puzzles. Privacy-tool signals alone never cause a puzzle.
  • Puzzles are an escalation, not a barrier. A person passes a group of two puzzles (an audio group takes three). Failing a group ends it with a fresh challenge and the support link, never a block.

Choose your own thresholds with this in mind: a minScore of 0.5 or lower leaves room for people on privacy networks who otherwise look normal, and you can ask for a step-up (for example email MFA) instead of refusing.