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"Checking your browser before accessing www.michaelrinderle.com" WTF? What exactly is it about my browser that you want to check? And why is it taking so lon
by lisper 5y ago
"Checking your browser before accessing www.michaelrinderle.com"
WTF? What exactly is it about my browser that you want to check? And why is it taking so long?
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoCloudflare DDOS protection?
- lisper 5y agoWell, yeah, that's what it says. But how exactly is "checking my browser" for 30 seconds or more (I gave up on it after that) supposed to prevent a DDOS attack?
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoI would assume it is fingerprinting you and checking you against a list of bad fingerprints.
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoIf you're serious about accessing the site and not just a script creating trouble, you'll stick around.
- webmobdev 5y agoIt's just free advertisement for CloudFlare. They offer "free" DDoS protection to sites, and use this as a form of advertising too by showing this to any visitor that browses a "cloudflare protected" site that use some kind of improved privacy settings or privacy oriented browser extension on their browser. (They are the equivalent of the old "your xxx antivirus is protecting" you popups). The better the privacy settings, the more it will make you go through what is now infamous as the "Captcha hell". (Ofcourse, they kindly offer you a "solution" to avoid this nagging - the Cloudflare Privacy Pass. Install the browser extension and sacrifice your privacy, and CloudFlare will not nag you). I am from India, where many unsecure computers are often infected with malware, and often part of large bot networks. Thus, many indian IPs are already in blacklists or treated suspiciously. So I see this a lot. So much, that I just despise CloudFlare now (recently even recommended Netlify over Cloudflare to a client to have my petty revenge over them).