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Cloudflare sends certain users they think are bots into infinite captcha loops - the wrong user agent or tor endpoint can do it
by nemomarx 1y ago
Cloudflare sends certain users they think are bots into infinite captcha loops - the wrong user agent or tor endpoint can do it
- osigurdson 1y agoI assume this is only on sites that are on Cloudflare though. Or, no?
- selfhoster11 1y agoTrue, but a lot of sites use Cloudflare. It's sometimes very unexpected sites as well, both very large ones and very small ones.
- arevno 1y agoYes, it's unfortunate that a network service provider whose primary business model is checks notes preventing network abuse would try to detect and prevent abuse via various heuristics such as captchas. I also agree that Cloudflare should get all the blame here, since none of their customers voluntarily chose to use them, and Cloudflare doesn't give their customers a huge variety of options for bot detection sensitivity. Matt Prince personally kidnaps CTOs and waterboards them until they agree to use Cloudflare, and the thousands of configuration options and rule combinations on the WAF are just for show - customers can't actually use them. What an evil, evil company.
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoIt's the same people who believe software has no settings.