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Cloudflare is a cancer upon the internet.
+1.
I. Fucking. Hate. Cloudflare.
It's such a huge % of the internet now. Intercepted by cloudflare. Which says I "passed". But then, gets stuck in an endless reload loop back to the cloudflare page. And never forwards me to the site itself.
Sometimes it does work. But at least half the sites, it doesn't. Totally normal things. Like recipe sites. Or a site cataloging vintage toys.
This shit is making the internet unusable for anyone who tries to keep their privacy from the co's that track every click you ever make, every site you read. I get it, sites need protection against DDOS attacks and stuff. But there has got to be a way w/o so much collateral damage.
It's probably because of resistFingerprinting in about:config.
Unfortunately sites need to use them or someone similar to not get attacked to shit by AI bots. Websites could turn off the challenges (which are that captcha) so Cloudflare just absorbs DDoS attacks, then use the open source Cap inside the site on things like the log in page and comments instead.
I have it set to false, though... 🤔
Weird thing is it fails on pages infected with cloudflare (says browser not supported), but cloudflare's own test page claims everything works properly.
It must have something to do with NoScript, but I have everything remotely related to cloudflare set to trusted, so I don't know what.
Works in incognito mode, but I don't want to navigate the webwithout ad blocking.
You can enable ublock (or any extension) to run in incognito mode too (edit: my mostly default ublock settings play fine with cloudflare)
Yes but AI being the cancer on cancer made companies who didn't previously have to use cloudflare turn to cloudflare to prevent the inscessent constant DDOSing of AI users and companies.
Oh my god yes. I fucking hate Cloudflare. Everything about it is just awful and unfortunately so many websites are using it now.