Yes, CloudFlare blocks agents completely if they ignore it’s restrictions. The key is scale - CloudFlare has a birds eye view of traffic patterns across millions of sites and can do statistical analysis to determine who is a bot.

I hate the necessity but it works

3 that I’m actually using, on my “Home Server” (Raspberry Pi).

One day I will be migrating the work stuff on VPS over to Docker, and then we’ll see who has the most!