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> If malicious or scraping traffic is coming from your IP, it's not victim blaming But it is not; my IP is a residential address paid for with a credit card as
by DetectDefect 9mo ago
> If malicious or scraping traffic is coming from your IP, it's not victim blaming
But it is not; my IP is a residential address paid for with a credit card associated to a human who visits like 6 websites.
- Arainach 9mo agoThe message is stating that you're seeing a Captcha because suspicious traffic has come from your network. If you're not doing suspicious things, "check that you're not infected with malware" is valid feedback.
- DetectDefect 9mo agoNo, the message is stating that because I don't allow Javascript to fingerprint and commodify my browser. The euphemized nonsense about malware is just an insult to reason at this point.
- expedition32 9mo agoPrivacy is suspicious nowadays.
- mikestew 9mo agoNo, it’s because Cloudflare and archive.ph have some pissing content going. I forget the details, but it has nothing to do with malware on anyone’s machine. Somewhere on HN someone has given a better explanation, but I’m not spelunking for it.