How do you unblock challenges Cloudflare? What does the error message mean, how to fix - as popular apps go down including X, Vinted, OpenAI
Web users are facing outages amidst technical issues at Cloudflare.
Social media platform X, as well as Canva and OpenAI are among those caught up in the outage so far. Meanwhile, players on online games such as League of Legends and Valorant have also encountered difficulties.
Users attempting to access sites were met with a message stating: "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed". In a status update, Cloudflare said it’s aware of the issue and has launched an investigation to establish the root cause.
In its latest update it said: “We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers.” According to Google, fixes to the error message include disabling VPNs and browser extensions, clearing your cache, and checking your browser's settings and updates.
However, it has not been confirmed if these fixes will sort the problem as Cloudflare issues are ongoing. The error message means a security system from Cloudflare is blocking you from accessing the site because it thinks you might not be a legitimate user.
It is due to Cloudflare being down - and services need to resume to normal in order for users to access affected websites.