Using US Tor exit nodes (as an exercise or obligation, not out of personal necessity), I often see access denial pages by Cloudflare, up to and including within the last day.
Cloudflare is much more permissive if you enable JS for the site. Then, if you're going from a Cloudflare error page denying you permission (presumably because of Tor), you might reluctantly decide to enable JS, and reload... then you'll probably load and sit on a different Cloudflare page for a few/several seconds, before the actual content page probably will finally load.
For the scenario above, I don't know whether the site owners (usually news sites, in my case) are aware that their site has been made difficult or more dangerous to access, for some people who feel threatened/oppressed in their countries.
I appreciate that Cloudflare infrastructure is probably under constant abuse, including through Tor, and of course I don't have any snap answers for what they should do differently. What I mention above is just some of the behavior I can see.
The site owners might be explicitly blocking Tor, the "Cf-Country" header will show "T1" if the request comes from Tor, so site owners can block those requests via a Cloudflare firewall rule or at their origin. It can be tempting to block all of tor if you keep getting attacked via the tor network, even if you're a news site.
> if you keep getting attacked via the tor network
This is why we can't have nice things. Given enough time and traffic, eventually the worst-behaving actors will poke at everything vulnerable any way they can, until everything gets locked down so tight that everyone with half a brain develops acute paranoia and an intrusive sense of defeat. I honestly think it's genetic, though, and there will continue to be a lack of easy answers.
Try to find a few humans in meatspace you can trust. Preferably with skills that balance well with yours.
I would imagine it is getting worse because very recently a lot of US local news and sites are blocking so many external countries its hard to tell what is really happening inside the USA if not a large city or popular topic. Ironically, this is exactly what Tor was built to fight against but the perceived risk is too high now for some reason.
Cloudflare is much more permissive if you enable JS for the site. Then, if you're going from a Cloudflare error page denying you permission (presumably because of Tor), you might reluctantly decide to enable JS, and reload... then you'll probably load and sit on a different Cloudflare page for a few/several seconds, before the actual content page probably will finally load.
For the scenario above, I don't know whether the site owners (usually news sites, in my case) are aware that their site has been made difficult or more dangerous to access, for some people who feel threatened/oppressed in their countries.
I appreciate that Cloudflare infrastructure is probably under constant abuse, including through Tor, and of course I don't have any snap answers for what they should do differently. What I mention above is just some of the behavior I can see.