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The irony (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

CF: We defended your website from 69,420 bots today!

The 65,000 users: 👁️L👁️

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

its funny. when its anubis, the common opinion is rightly fuck ai, but when its cloudflare, then it is somehow fuck the website.

what a weird world we live in.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anubis does its thing, shows me cute art, then leaves without elaborating. It's a mostly non-intrusive, individual/community effort to protect people against big tech and abusive scrapers. I usually see it in open source community websites that were getting hammered by LLM scrapers.

Cloudflare's is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

You're goddamn right my reaction is accordingly different.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cloudflare’s is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

It is also not very useful if you don't use a PC. Every time I look up a Cloudflare-gated site on my iPad, I usually have to jump through a few captchas before it will let me in, if it doesn't decide to be a grump and decide to put you in a sisyphean cycle of captchas, constantly refreshing without end.

Or if you use some software. I have citation software that gets stuck in the loop because Elsevier puts their journals behind a Cloudflare wall, and when it pops up the prompt to prove you're not a bot, just refreshes straight into another prompt.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cloudflare's is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

on SO sites all the difference is a single click. and you have to allow scripts and cookies for both, so no difference there.

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