I am. But I'm using a VPN with LibreWolf so it definitely is triggering a few red flags.

I'm sorry to have to inform you of this, but it's possible you might be a bot.

More than usual yeah.

The cynical part of me wonders if it's just to tag my activity as useful human usability patterns for future modeling.

MITM Cloudflare is a travesty to the internet.

Could be your network is being used as a residential proxy. Time to audit the logs.

Cloudflare proxying is off on piefed.social and the server has not caught fire yet. Hurrah!

With proxying off, all their crap security stuff is bypassed. Also all their helpful caching stuff... But I've gotten that working pretty well in nginx these days anyway.

Is it just PieFed.* or all kinds of websites?

I'm seeing them everywhere, everywhere. I mostly use w3m(a text browser) and just think of my pain. I have to move to a regular browser just to read an article. Fuck cloudflare

I have only had this infinite loop happen on fediverse links. Sometimes not even Cloudflare, but ones using Anubis, too.

Since it happens only rarely, and only with links posted here on the Fediverse, I just have been assuming the server host is incorrectly configured by an amateur self-hosting type.

nope.

Every website down to small independent forums are getting absolutely slammed by thousands of AI bots. They are just raping any text they can find to train their models.