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Cloudflare has been even worse for me on Linux + Firefox. On a number of sites I get the "Verify" challenge and after solving it immediately get a message sayin

by rurp 2y ago

Cloudflare has been even worse for me on Linux + Firefox. On a number of sites I get the "Verify" challenge and after solving it immediately get a message saying "You have been blocked" every time. Clearing cookies, disabling UBO, and other changes make no difference. Reporting the issue to them does nothing. This hostility to normal browsing behavior makes me extremely reluctant to ever use Cloudflare on any projects.

nbernard 2y ago
Check that you are allowing webworker scripts, that did the trick for me. I still have issues on slower computers (Raspberry pies and the like) as they seem to be to slow to do whatever Cloudflare wants as a verification in the allotted time, however.
lta 2y ago
Yeah, same here. I've avoided it for a most of my customers for that very reason already
sleepybrett 2y ago
Yeah, Lego and Etsy are two sites I can now only visit with safari. It sucks. Firefox on the same machine it claims I'm a bot or a crawler. (not even on linux, on a mac)
mmh0000 2y ago
At least you can get past the challenge. For me, every-single-time it is an endless loop of "select all bikes/cars/trains". I've given up even trying to solve the challenge anymore and just close the page when it shows up.
- theamk 2y ago
  that's not Cloudflare, they stopped doing pictures years ago. You can tell because Cloudflare always puths their brand name on their page. Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays.
  - jcelerier 2y ago
    > Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays. looks like someone is due for a class action
  - trinix912 2y ago
    It is Cloudflare, I see it too. It's a Cloudflare page, with all branding, the spinning circle, then a captcha pops up on the same Cloudflare-branded page.
    - theamk 2y ago
      Interesting! Do you have have a URL I could look at?
a_imho 2y ago
I'm a Cloudflare customer, even their own dashboard does not work with linux+slightly older firefox. I mean one click and it is ooops, please report the error to dev null
ponector 2y ago
Sounds like my experience browsing internet while connected to the VPN provided by my employer: tons of captcha and everything is defaulted to German (IP is from Frankfurt).
Springtime 2y ago
I run a few Linux desktop VMs and Cloudflare's Turnstile verification (their auto/non-input based verification) fails for the couple sites I've tried that use it for logins, on latest Chromium and Firefox browsers. Doesn't matter that I'm even connecting from the same IP. I'd presumed it was just the VM they're heuristically detecting but sounds like some are experiencing issues on Linux in general.
- abirch 2y ago
  I guess it’s time to update our user agent strings like I did with konquerer 20 years ago. Looks like there’s a plugin for that https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher...
neodymiumphish 2y ago
Does it still apply if you change the UA to something more common (Chrome on Windows or something)?
- beepbooptheory 2y ago
  Fwiw, I was getting cloudflare blocked for a long time on Firefox+Linux and the only thing that fixed it was completely disabling the UA adjuster browser extension I had installed.
anothercoup 2y ago
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ranger_danger 2y ago
The problem is that you are not performing "normal browsing behavior". The vast majority of the population (at least ~70% don't use ad-blockers) have no extensions and change no settings, so they are 100% fingerprintable every time, which lets them through immediately.
globalnode 2y ago
linux + firefox. not sure what happened to me yesterday but the challange/response thing was borked and when i finally got through it all, it said i was a robot anyway. this was while trying to sign up for a skype acct, could have been a ms issue though and not necessarily cloudflare. i think the solution is to just not use obstructive software. thanks to this issue i discovered jitsi and that seems more than enough for my purposes.

by rurp 2y ago

nbernard 2y ago

Check that you are allowing webworker scripts, that did the trick for me. I still have issues on slower computers (Raspberry pies and the like) as they seem to be to slow to do whatever Cloudflare wants as a verification in the allotted time, however.

lta 2y ago

Yeah, same here. I've avoided it for a most of my customers for that very reason already

sleepybrett 2y ago

Yeah, Lego and Etsy are two sites I can now only visit with safari. It sucks. Firefox on the same machine it claims I'm a bot or a crawler. (not even on linux, on a mac)

mmh0000 2y ago

At least you can get past the challenge. For me, every-single-time it is an endless loop of "select all bikes/cars/trains". I've given up even trying to solve the challenge anymore and just close the page when it shows up.

theamk 2y ago
that's not Cloudflare, they stopped doing pictures years ago. You can tell because Cloudflare always puths their brand name on their page. Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays.
- jcelerier 2y ago
  > Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays. looks like someone is due for a class action
- trinix912 2y ago
  It is Cloudflare, I see it too. It's a Cloudflare page, with all branding, the spinning circle, then a captcha pops up on the same Cloudflare-branded page.
  - theamk 2y ago
    Interesting! Do you have have a URL I could look at?

a_imho 2y ago

I'm a Cloudflare customer, even their own dashboard does not work with linux+slightly older firefox. I mean one click and it is ooops, please report the error to dev null

ponector 2y ago

Sounds like my experience browsing internet while connected to the VPN provided by my employer: tons of captcha and everything is defaulted to German (IP is from Frankfurt).

Springtime 2y ago

I run a few Linux desktop VMs and Cloudflare's Turnstile verification (their auto/non-input based verification) fails for the couple sites I've tried that use it for logins, on latest Chromium and Firefox browsers. Doesn't matter that I'm even connecting from the same IP. I'd presumed it was just the VM they're heuristically detecting but sounds like some are experiencing issues on Linux in general.

abirch 2y ago
I guess it’s time to update our user agent strings like I did with konquerer 20 years ago. Looks like there’s a plugin for that https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher...

neodymiumphish 2y ago

Does it still apply if you change the UA to something more common (Chrome on Windows or something)?

beepbooptheory 2y ago
Fwiw, I was getting cloudflare blocked for a long time on Firefox+Linux and the only thing that fixed it was completely disabling the UA adjuster browser extension I had installed.

anothercoup 2y ago

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ranger_danger 2y ago

The problem is that you are not performing "normal browsing behavior". The vast majority of the population (at least ~70% don't use ad-blockers) have no extensions and change no settings, so they are 100% fingerprintable every time, which lets them through immediately.

globalnode 2y ago

linux + firefox. not sure what happened to me yesterday but the challange/response thing was borked and when i finally got through it all, it said i was a robot anyway. this was while trying to sign up for a skype acct, could have been a ms issue though and not necessarily cloudflare. i think the solution is to just not use obstructive software. thanks to this issue i discovered jitsi and that seems more than enough for my purposes.