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OP didn’t put this in the title but the article is from 2016. Turns out a lot has changed in the last decade and I think it’s likely that the article should be
by ehhthing 9mo ago
OP didn’t put this in the title but the article is from 2016. Turns out a lot has changed in the last decade and I think it’s likely that the article should be updated on what it’s like right now.
- bhattisatish 9mo agoOh this is still very true! I am from Banglaore, India. There are sites that outright block me. And in a day, I at least encounter 20-25 times where I need to click on "human checkbox" due to my region or IP. In mobile it's worse. All sites that have "strict" mode on, will either block or show the "human checkbox". Even sites that I manage with Cloudflare, I see the same. Even if I use relaxed mode on, If I visit the site via mobile, it can trigger the Cloudflare human validation.
- andy99 9mo agos/is ruining/has ruined/ ?
- noosphr 9mo agog
- fsflover 9mo agoMore recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
- pmdr 9mo ago> Turns out a lot has changed in the last decade and I think it’s likely that the article should be updated on what it’s like right now. Yes, every one-pager running on Vercel/Netlify sits behind Cloudflare now because no one wants to risk an insane cloud bill in case of an attack. People have become hopelessly dependent on managed cloud services. However, to be fair, there's less captcha solving nowadays, since they introduced their one-click challenge (but that's not always the case).