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Is it not a cloud flare issue? Hn is behind cloudflare, and cloudflare thinks it's a problem... last time I tried, it's requests verification each time, as do o

Is it not a cloud flare issue? Hn is behind cloudflare, and cloudflare thinks it's a problem... last time I tried, it's requests verification each time, as do other cloudflare backed sites (my own included)

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anexprogrammer 10y ago
Cloudflare is horrifically hostile to users, triggering blocks and Captchas all the damn time, but I've never once had an issue, or cloudflare interruption, with HN. It'd give me an interesting conflict if I ever had, as I take Cloudflare captchas as a huge negative indicator of trust.
- curiousgal 10y ago
  In fairness, Cloudflare's CTO did engage with the Tor folks for quite some time. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361
  - anexprogrammer 10y ago
    Well there was something on Github of a browser addon to mitigate the worst of the challenges, back in summer. I remember it hitting front page here. Seemed hopeful a solution was on the horizon. It seems to have been untouched since, and no sign of an actual solution... Now the UK is stepping up surveillance silliness I use the VPN rather more, and expect many others are, or will. Which today just means endless unintelligently implemented CAPTCHAs.
    - garrettr_ 10y ago
      > It seems to have been untouched since, and no sign of an actual solution... They're working on it! There will be a talk about this about Real World Crypto 2017 in January, see "Solving the Cloudflare CAPTCHA" on the RWC program: http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2017/program http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2017/program.
      - anexprogrammer 10y ago
        Great. I hope we'll see some movement soon - it's sorely needed. CAPTCHAs seem to trigger more and more often lately. Shame RWC don't put out videos of past talks - there's a couple of others look pretty interesting too.
- kiallmacinnes 10y ago
  Gotta admit, I've never seen a cloudflare captcha anywhere. Not since the SEO guy who had a desk in our office left 2 years ago. (Funnily enough, Google stopped giving us captchas at the same time ;))
michaelt 10y ago
I don't get the usual cloudflare captcha when I visit HN via Tor. Maybe the problem is something else? You can disable CloudFlare's tor-blocking [1] - I do on my static blog, as I don't see much value in putting a captcha in front of static content. [1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...

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anexprogrammer 10y ago

Cloudflare is horrifically hostile to users, triggering blocks and Captchas all the damn time, but I've never once had an issue, or cloudflare interruption, with HN. It'd give me an interesting conflict if I ever had, as I take Cloudflare captchas as a huge negative indicator of trust.

curiousgal 10y ago
In fairness, Cloudflare's CTO did engage with the Tor folks for quite some time. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361
- anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Well there was something on Github of a browser addon to mitigate the worst of the challenges, back in summer. I remember it hitting front page here. Seemed hopeful a solution was on the horizon. It seems to have been untouched since, and no sign of an actual solution... Now the UK is stepping up surveillance silliness I use the VPN rather more, and expect many others are, or will. Which today just means endless unintelligently implemented CAPTCHAs.
  - garrettr_ 10y ago
    > It seems to have been untouched since, and no sign of an actual solution... They're working on it! There will be a talk about this about Real World Crypto 2017 in January, see "Solving the Cloudflare CAPTCHA" on the RWC program: http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2017/program http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2017/program.
    - anexprogrammer 10y ago
      Great. I hope we'll see some movement soon - it's sorely needed. CAPTCHAs seem to trigger more and more often lately. Shame RWC don't put out videos of past talks - there's a couple of others look pretty interesting too.
kiallmacinnes 10y ago
Gotta admit, I've never seen a cloudflare captcha anywhere. Not since the SEO guy who had a desk in our office left 2 years ago. (Funnily enough, Google stopped giving us captchas at the same time ;))

michaelt 10y ago

I don't get the usual cloudflare captcha when I visit HN via Tor. Maybe the problem is something else? You can disable CloudFlare's tor-blocking [1] - I do on my static blog, as I don't see much value in putting a captcha in front of static content. [1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...