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Disclosure, I've not run a website since my health issues began, however, Cloudflare has an AI firewall, Cloudflare is super cheap (also: unsure if the AI firew
by eek2121 10mo ago
Disclosure, I've not run a website since my health issues began, however, Cloudflare has an AI firewall, Cloudflare is super cheap (also: unsure if the AI firewall is on the free tier, however I would be surprised if it is not). Ignoring the recent drama about a couple incidents they've had (because this would not matter for a personal blog), why not use this instead?
Just curious. Hoping to be able to work on a website again someday, if I ever regain my health/stamina/etc back.
- brigandish 10mo agoAll the best with getting back on your feet.
- ddtaylor 10mo agoCloudflare has created a bit of grief with regular users getting spammed with "prove your human" requests.
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoYes, e.g: I'll immediately close any attempt at Cloudfare's verification.
- rglynn 10mo agoOut of interest, why that extreme? Just out of principle or some other reason?
- Rastonbury 10mo agoNot OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoMy main terminal uses a PiHole with 120,000+ blacklist rules (not Cloudfare specifically — I allow most CDN's). This includes an entire blackout of Google/Facebook products, as well as most tracking/analytics services. For example, I do not allow reCAPTCHA. As a similar commentor noted, when just casually browsing I don't really have any desire to try hard to read random content. Should I absolutely need to access some information garden-walled behind Cloudfare: I have another computer that uses much less restrictive black-listing.
- pjc50 10mo agoAll the solutions are going to have a few false positives, sadly.
- nottorp 10mo agoOr a lot if you use privacy extensions. Cloudflare's automatic checks (before you get the captcha) must be pretty close to what ad peddlers do.
- vaylian 10mo agoCan confirm. I have been blocked plenty of times and it's really annoying.