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0 pointsmdaniel3y ago0 comments

> to protect against abuse

I would actually be on-board with such things if this were against abuse but it's not -- it's preemptively assigning blame, since my copy of Firefox is not modified in any way except uBO but CF loves to captcha it. The other stories in every one of these captcha threads, and the majority of the CloudFlare announcements at all, demonstrate this isn't isolated to "oops, our bad" but a systemic problem

If I were DDoS-ing some site, I deserve every ban I get, but just browsing via the provided navigation links on the site shouldn't "pardon our interruption" or gatekeep

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byteduck3y ago

Interesting. I wonder what other factors you might have going against you causing CF to captcha you - I have my Firefox loaded up with almost every ad-blocking, privacy, and anti-fingerprinting extension I could think of, but I rarely get CAPTCHAs.

mdanielOP3y ago

> I wonder what other factors

Yes, and that's my point: it's not action that the user can take to resolve accusations, and it's not because of abusive behavior it's just `response.status(200 if random.randbool() else 403)`

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

Possibly IP address; Cloudflare doesn't like cgnat/shared addresses, or even if you just happen to be in a subnet they don't like.

boltzmann-brain3y ago

> Cloudflare doesn't like

and theeeeeeeeeere's your problem.

ectopod3y ago

I block cookies and js. Cloudflare doesn't like that.

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

Ah yes, the classic "we care about security and privacy so much that we're going to force you to enable the biggest exploit vectors" move; classic Cloudflare:)

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0 pointsmdaniel3y ago0 comments

> to protect against abuse

If I were DDoS-ing some site, I deserve every ban I get, but just browsing via the provided navigation links on the site shouldn't "pardon our interruption" or gatekeep

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byteduck3y ago

mdanielOP3y ago

> I wonder what other factors

Yes, and that's my point: it's not action that the user can take to resolve accusations, and it's not because of abusive behavior it's just `response.status(200 if random.randbool() else 403)`

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

Possibly IP address; Cloudflare doesn't like cgnat/shared addresses, or even if you just happen to be in a subnet they don't like.

boltzmann-brain3y ago

> Cloudflare doesn't like

and theeeeeeeeeere's your problem.

ectopod3y ago

I block cookies and js. Cloudflare doesn't like that.

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

Ah yes, the classic "we care about security and privacy so much that we're going to force you to enable the biggest exploit vectors" move; classic Cloudflare:)

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