The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare
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They're meant to prevent bot traffic to sites and protect from DDOS attacks
Except that bots already have a higher pass rate than humans, so the captcha isn’t even good at preventing bots.
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And the cloudflare ones are broken as fuck. It varies but I often just can't pass them. Answer it, wheel goes round and then back to having to tick it and start again. Beep boop.
If I see a cloudflare check I often just don't bother loading the site at all.
Yeah cloudflare gets a similar reaction as a paywall. Fuck this site, I'll go somewhere else
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Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad
The obstacles serve a specific purpose though. Do you believe this purpose is unimportant?
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The obstacles serve a specific purpose though. Do you believe this purpose is unimportant?
As usual, the purpose doesn't justify the means. The goal could and should be achieved without this nonsense