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The actual "easiest" way (at least for me) to bypass Cloudflare is to find the actual IP of the web-server running behind it. Of course in a lot of cases it's not possible, for example when the web admin correctly limits the webserver to only respond to Cloudflare IP ranges, or if https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/o... is used.

Most useful services for that are https://shodan.io/ and https://search.censys.io/. I've had decent successes with Censys on finding real IP addresses of websites behind Cloudflare. Of course you might also have success by checking history of DNS records for a particular domain.


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