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You're bombarded with Cloudflare captchas because bots are heavily scraping the websites you're browsing and they are struggling to stay online by putting in pl
by yawaramin 1y ago
You're bombarded with Cloudflare captchas because bots are heavily scraping the websites you're browsing and they are struggling to stay online by putting in place heavy-handed bot-fighting tactics. Without Cloudflare, you wouldn't have the website you're browsing.
- userbinator 1y agoOr CF could just do better caching, which was their original reason for existence.
- yawaramin 1y agoCF is not magic, they have limits too. What's the point of serving cached copies to bots while real users experience unavailability?
- userbinator 1y agoUnless they're actually dropping the connections with a RST, I wonder how much bots repeatedly hammering at their CAPTCHA pages (which is actually relatively large in comparison to many static sites) costs them, vs. just serving the actual content which could actually be smaller.
- yawaramin 1y agoThe captcha pages are guaranteed to be static while the upstream content could miss the cache at any time.
- wraptile 1y ago> Without Cloudflare, you wouldn't have the website you're browsing What ridiculous statement.