Hold-And-Modify

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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
After almost ten days of deafening silence and broken Internet access, I guess we have to paraphrase Adam Martinetti, the Cloudflare Product Manager from 2022 and conclude that in 2025: Cloudflare DOES want to be in the business of saying o
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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
Unfortunately not. Cloudflare verification goes deeper into browser 'mechanics' than that. Not to mention it could flag you as malicious if you dare attempt bypassing it.
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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
Fair enough, but... if Cloudflare's challenge bugs out who is going to fix it? Aren't they responsible for their own critical tools? Because in the end, the result is connection denial. I don't want to connect to Cloudflare,
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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
This crash is an even newer Cloudflare issue (as of yesterday, I believe). It is not related to the one discussed here, and will be solved in the next browser update: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32064
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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
Not exactly. They say: "Challenges are not supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer." Nowhere is it mentioned that internet access will be denied to visitors not using "major" browsers, as defined by Cloudflare presumab
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by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago
Forgot to clarify: this is not about an increased amount of captchas, or an annoyance issue. The Cloudflare tool does not complete its verifications, resulting in an endless "Verifying..." loop and thus none of the websites in que
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Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
1343 points by Hold-And-Modify 2y ago|524 comments