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Cloudflare is so embedded into so many important services (like some other companies, including Google), that they need to be thinking of their role as having s
by neilv 2y ago
Cloudflare is so embedded into so many important services (like some other companies, including Google), that they need to be thinking of their role as having some government-like responsibilities.
For example, for starters, Cloudflare and Google need to find ways so that individual people who're wrongly being locked out of services by the company, have some way to get that unlocked. Not "sux2bu we dont do support bro".
(Then they can start thinking about the next step, which is due process, and what it means to wrongly lock out someone in the first place.)
That said, as an immediate pragmatic matter, one debugging tip with your Firefox is to go to the `about:profiles` URL, and temporarily create a new profile, and without using any Firefox sync feature, and see if Cloudflare lets you through, and then incrementally add back in your extensions and preference customizations, and see if/when CF stops letting you in. (Not that it will necessarily identify the sole and exact trigger, since they might be using scores of multiple factors, but it will be evidence of one thing that pushes it over the edge. And maybe get you to a compromise setup that lets you do your work for now.) Also helpful is to have alternate browsers installed; personally, I keep Chromium installed, as my "violate me every possible way, if you'll just let me access this one page/site I really need right now".