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Neither does fingerprinting.
by dotancohen 5mo ago
Neither does fingerprinting.
- dcrazy 5mo agoThe goal of Cloudflare’s fingerprinting is to detect whether a user agent appears to be a legitimate human. It’s not to identify human users across websites.
- zzo38computer 5mo agoThat is not a good excuse for requiring overly complicated and overly specific software.
- dcrazy 5mo agoEvery HN thread is full of people who think webmasters should just pay through the nose to handle bot traffic to preserve the sacred rights of turbonerds to visit their website using Lynx on their toaster.
- zzo38computer 5mo agoI should think that there should be a better way (e.g. port knocking, instructions for manually correcting the URL that cannot easily be automated, additionally supporting alternative protocols, etc).
- brookst 5mo agoSounds great. Link us to your project?
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- Catloafdev 5mo agoIt actually is. And to think it's not, means you don't understand what the benefit is. Just because you've never been in a situation to care about the benefit they are offering, does not mean it's not valuable. And the position "you need a good excuse to have overly specific software" is extremely strange.