5 ms·
If you surf on desktop sites from Philippines on a mobile phone plan (which is often the best Internet connection in that country) you also get Cloudflare's cap
by therealmarv 4y ago
If you surf on desktop sites from Philippines on a mobile phone plan (which is often the best Internet connection in that country) you also get Cloudflare's captchas everywhere.
I told it before and tell it now again: Cloudflare is dividing the World between first and second/third World countries with their captchas. I call it discrimination of second/third World countries! If you are from US and Europe you will never notice it but if you travel a little bit more you see these blocking captchas everywhere.
- ReptileMan 4y agoI am from Europe and I notice if I use some non residential ip. The captchas are extremely annoying especially when trying to access a site I have already been logged into with 2fa. Who is protected in this case.
- aendruk 4y agoThe other side of this story is that PLDT stands out from other residential networks as a persistent source of web form spam. I’d love to learn what’s going on differently there.
- chrismorgan 4y agoI’ve had a similar experience in India with wired internet from a local ISP: CGNAT is used so there are who knows how many customers on the same IPv4 address, https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ shows at least forty hours of movies being downloaded every day, the IP address is on half the blacklists out there because someone is part of an email-sending botnet, and yeah, Cloudflare hates you.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoIs there even any way to reliably identify individual users behind a CGNAT without invasive fingerprinting?
- Dma54rhs 4y agoI get these a lot and I'm from EU. But it's "seasonal".
- Jamie9912 4y agoMaybe your mobile ISPs dont do enough to stop malicious/spam traffic. That's not Cloudflare's fault
- therealmarv 4y agoIt only affects Cloudflare hosted sites though.
- Jamie9912 4y agoThat's true, but it's the Cloudflare customer who decides what to block by default with their Firewall setting mode, and custom rules etc
- therealmarv 4y agothe default is to block most malicious sites or something which is in their opinion everything outside of regular US and Europe networks. And that's wrong. Many people also do not change defaults.
- thephyber 4y agoNo, it affects visitors of “Cloudflare hosted sites”. It also affects all sites not hosted by CloudFlare. You are complaining about the use of IP as an imperfect signal. Everyone involved knows that. But it’s still better than the current alternatives.
- thewebcount 4y agoI get it browsing from a major ISP in the US. I have the gall to browse in private mode and to block trackers and ads because of all the malware they contain. (And I don't use a browser that requires me to login just to browse the web - gasp!) And apparently, that means I'm worthy of this sort of punishment as well.
- thephyber 4y ago> I have the gall to browse in private mode and to block trackers and ads because of all the malware they contain. I do these things as well. It’s been months since I’ve seen a CloudFlare challenge page.
- thewebcount 4y agoI don't get them as frequently as discussed in the article, but they come up a few times per week.