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This is how it's going. Half the websites I go to have Cloudflare captchas guarding them at this point. Every time I visit StackOverflow I get a 5 second wait w
by aopwiejfpoieajf 1y ago
This is how it's going. Half the websites I go to have Cloudflare captchas guarding them at this point. Every time I visit StackOverflow I get a 5 second wait while Cloudflare decides I'm kosher.
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoAre you using TOR or a VPN, spoofing your User-Agent to something uncommon, or doing something else that tries to add extra privacy? That kind of user experience is one that I've seen a lot on HN, and every time, without fail, it's because they're doing something that makes them look like a bot, and then being all Surprised Pikachu when they get treated like a bot by websites.
- EPendragon 1y agoI started having similar experiences when I switched to using Brave browser that blocks lots of tracking. Many websites that didn't show me those captchas and Cloudflare protection layers now have started to pop up on a regular basis.
- ponooqjoqo 1y agoI get this and I assume it's because I clear cookies pretty frequently. It used to be the case that that didn't matter, but nowadays everyone shields their websites using JS.
- 71bw 1y agoI use regular Edge with uBlock and get cloudflare crapchas all the time.