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Just a reminder: Cloudflare with its standard settings is breaking the second and third world countries internet with their captchas on websites. This is discri

Just a reminder: Cloudflare with its standard settings is breaking the second and third world countries internet with their captchas on websites. This is discrimination in my opinion. As long as you are only in a first world country you will never notice.

freedomben 6y ago
Minor correction: As long as you are only in a first world country [and you don't use a VPN service or Tor] you will never notice. I point this out because I think it's an anti-privacy "feature" and I wish CF would stop.
- meowface 6y ago
  They could just block these IPs outright. A massive percentage of attack traffic runs over these networks. Before, site owners would often have to block Tor completely after dealing with enough spam/attacks from exit nodes, and now they can allow actual humans without any sort of complex setup. I think it's a net win for everyone involved, personally.
judge2020 6y ago
Isn't this because of ISP-grade NAT where one bad actor (either maliciously or via running something like hola vpn) can kill a few hundred users' IP reputation?
peteretep 6y ago
I do almost all of my internet access from a 2nd/3rd world country and hadn’t noticed?
- andreareina 6y ago
  Depends on the country/ISP probably. From the Philippines, Firefox with uBlockOrigin and PrivacyBadger hit captcha walls all the time; all that stopped as soon as I moved to Singapore.
ffpip 6y ago
What else do you expect them to do? Also allow all the bots that use IP's from 2nd and 3rd world countries?
whoknew1122 6y ago
'First world country' means 'aligned with Western democracies in the Cold War' 'Second world country' means 'aligned with the USSR in the Cold War' 'Third world country' means 'unaligned in the Cold War' Are you talking about countries with under-developed internet infrastructure? That includes swaths of the US....
- mschuster91 6y ago
  No, GP means exactly the old classic definition of "second/third world" countries.

freedomben 6y ago

Minor correction: As long as you are only in a first world country [and you don't use a VPN service or Tor] you will never notice. I point this out because I think it's an anti-privacy "feature" and I wish CF would stop.

meowface 6y ago
They could just block these IPs outright. A massive percentage of attack traffic runs over these networks. Before, site owners would often have to block Tor completely after dealing with enough spam/attacks from exit nodes, and now they can allow actual humans without any sort of complex setup. I think it's a net win for everyone involved, personally.

judge2020 6y ago

Isn't this because of ISP-grade NAT where one bad actor (either maliciously or via running something like hola vpn) can kill a few hundred users' IP reputation?

peteretep 6y ago

I do almost all of my internet access from a 2nd/3rd world country and hadn’t noticed?

andreareina 6y ago
Depends on the country/ISP probably. From the Philippines, Firefox with uBlockOrigin and PrivacyBadger hit captcha walls all the time; all that stopped as soon as I moved to Singapore.

ffpip 6y ago

What else do you expect them to do? Also allow all the bots that use IP's from 2nd and 3rd world countries?

whoknew1122 6y ago

'First world country' means 'aligned with Western democracies in the Cold War' 'Second world country' means 'aligned with the USSR in the Cold War' 'Third world country' means 'unaligned in the Cold War' Are you talking about countries with under-developed internet infrastructure? That includes swaths of the US....

mschuster91 6y ago
No, GP means exactly the old classic definition of "second/third world" countries.