alt Hacker NewsAh Cloudflare, where you constantly get captchas for attempting to read a web page.
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At least they moved away from Google Captchas, which really hates disabling of 3rd party cookies and other privacy-protection measures.
I haven't had a problem with Cloudflare and their new Captcha system since their changed, but I still suffer whenever I see another website using Google Captcha :(
Even better, you can get a captcha before you're allowed to see 404 Not Found.
The other side of the coin is lizards trying to literally end the internet era with their irresponsible behavior, and hell, making a nice living in the process
And god forbid you use a VPN and try to do anything on a Cloudflare site
Cloudflare dropped captchas back in 2022 [0], now it's just a checkbox that you check and it lets you it (or does not).
And this mean that my ancient android tablets can no longer visit many cloudflare-enabled sites.. I have a very mixed feelings about this:
I hate that my tablets are no longer usable so I want less Cloudflare;
but also when I visit websites (on modern computers) which provide traditional captchas where you click on picture of hydrants, I hate this even more and think: move to Cloudflare already, so I can stop doing this nonsense!
That's up to the site owner.
For example I configured my osdev wiki (mediawiki based) so that the history and other special pages get the Cloudflare test but just viewing a page doesn't trigger it. OpenAI and other bots were generating way too much traffic to pages they don't need.
Blame the bots that are DDOS'ing sites for the captchas.