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On one of my machines I run OpenBSD with Firefox with "Strict" privacy settings and "privacy.resistFingerprinting" enabled. There are so many websites I can't
by amatecha 3y ago
On one of my machines I run OpenBSD with Firefox with "Strict" privacy settings and "privacy.resistFingerprinting" enabled. There are so many websites I can't access, I get a straight-up 403 Forbidden page because CloudFlare has decided I am not trustworthy. I mean like pretty big companies like DigiKey, Home Depot, Canadian Tire, etc. I simply cannot use their websites, or I can load the initial page but then the API calls that provide the functionality all fail with a 403. DigiKey did something to unblock me and I can use their site again, but I know it's just a matter of time before it happens again. It's also a frequent problem on smaller sites that are simply using CloudFlare , and I never know when I'm going to be blocked from a site arbitrarily. It's especially egregious when it's a plain old text-based site like hamuniverse.com , or a small independent vendor like digirig.net ...
This is one of the things that makes it so clear to me that the web is diverging into two, one that is the "clean walled-garden capitalism web" and the continuation of the original web that was open, freely-accessible and built around sharing and knowledge.