Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases
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Maybe is against the ToS but I've used github as CDN for free in the past... Might work for you.
I never felt it was wrong, it was around the time of the Microsoft acquisition.
I appreciate the suggestion, but Github is also an American company. I've been moving my git repositories to Codeberg.
My sites don't get enough traffic to warrant a CDN really, but if necessary, BunnyCDN looks like it can fit the bill. Plus, my static sites are in Scaleway object storage.
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LibreWolf is next, and it's not exactly niche. In seeing it more and more, and LW defaults, even dropping resist settings, gets bounced by CloudFlare every time.
Wouldn't that also block Firefox by proxy?
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Wouldn't that also block Firefox by proxy?
Doesn't seem to. I turned off all the LW resist options, plus all my extensions, and still ended up in an infinite loop. But same extensions in FF doesn't seem to have an effect.
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Doesn't seem to. I turned off all the LW resist options, plus all my extensions, and still ended up in an infinite loop. But same extensions in FF doesn't seem to have an effect.
And so far LibreWolf and Icecat have both worked fine for me.
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Uh, no, they are better than humans at solving them.
How are you measuring this? On my end, when I look at the metrics I have available to me, the volume of bot requests that are passing captcha does not exceed that of humans. We continually review false positives and false negatives to make sure we aren't impacting humans while still making it hard for bots.
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It is obvious that Cloudflare is being influenced to enforce browser monopolies. Imagine if Cloudflare existed in 2003 and stopped non Internet Explorer browsers. If you use cloudflare to "protect" your site you are discriminating against browser choice and are as bad as Microsoft in 1998.
Agreed. I use cloudflare for domain hosting because they're cheap, but I have never liked their protections.
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What doesn't work with Lynx is a wrong website.
Agree for static content like news and blogs. Disagree for dynamic content like games and social media. And the latter is mostly for scale (having server-side templating is expensive for rapidly changing content).
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Need to start spoofing user agent strings again.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 3.0) -
I can't use my Browser without it being created by a tech giant, cant use my new computer without having my software uefi signed by Microsoft, AI will soon need me to have my GPU licensed and registered.
The world is heading to crap.
You can always build a PC and not have to deal with that UEFI signing stuff as you're expected to provide your own OS still, that option hasn't been eliminated yet.
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How are you measuring this? On my end, when I look at the metrics I have available to me, the volume of bot requests that are passing captcha does not exceed that of humans. We continually review false positives and false negatives to make sure we aren't impacting humans while still making it hard for bots.
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