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Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"
by dgan 5mo ago
Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"
- hansvm 5mo agoAbout goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.
- skybrian 5mo agoI mean, Cloudflare will help website owners ban scrapers unless they pay. It’s kind of what they do.
- raincole 5mo agoThis is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.
- zymhan 5mo agoI hate that I never considered this before.
- dakolli 5mo agoI've been using cloudflares remote browser api to bypass their own WAFs for my scrapers for a while, their products and services have been wildly contradictory for a while.
- titularcomment 5mo agoThis particular example is not contradictory if you think about it, its essentially a protection racket.