It is November 18th, and after reloading ChatGPT and X (formerly Twitter) a dozen times, I've reached the conclusion that something must be wrong with my router, as these websites keep returning a Cloudflare error. On most, it says, "Please unblock challenge.cloudflare.com to continue."

It didn't take long after I started Googling for a solution to realize it's not just me. There's a Cloudflare outage, and it's taking the internet down with it.

Another outage, from a different provider

It hasn't been long since the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage . That incident took down a good portion of the internet. If a website worked during the AWS outage, it was because it wasn't hosted on AWS. Likely, it was on Cloudflare. Now, it seems, it's Cloudflare's turn, and every website that relies on

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