The other day they blocked me from accessing Kagi's web site because I was using Kagi's web browser.
replyCloudflare is increasingly a problem in terms of blocking huge geographic regions, often without the website operators even being aware this is happening. All in the name of "security."
replyWell, at least you are not in Spain.
replyhttps://community.cloudflare.com/t/website-inaccessible-from...
The Spanish government no longer had to care about the consequences of their actions since they found a new voting block.
replyI'm not familiar with spanish politics, care to explain?
replyThey just gave millions of foreigners the ability to vote for the government.
replya quick search suggests that's just for municipal elections. As I understand the football internet blackouts are national government policy not municipal?
replyRegularization is a national policy. Soon to be followed by a shortened pathway to citizenship.
replyDo they not want to use the internet when football is on?
replyThis person is annoyed because Spain is speaking out against Israeli warcrimes/genocide.
replyThat's quite the leap. Not that it's relevant but I have no issue with european boycott or sanctions of Israel, though warcrimes accusations are pretty toothless. Almost no leaders past or present charged with war crimes were ever arrested.
replyI second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking:
Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany
reply"The myth of consensual website use"
replyUser: "I consent"
Website: "I consent"
Cloudflare: "I don't"
Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Here's an alternative source:
replyhttps://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-valve-cumm...
Mobile Safari has been giving me a complete loop on these in the past couple months, I have to switch browsers to get through. Anyone else?
replyMy guess is that this is a direct response to all the claw stuff running on macs. I used to never get cf captchas from a mac + home IP (while getting plenty on my linux ws + work vpn). Now i've gotten 2 sites in the past week that not only show the captcha, but also loop once I click the human thing. Most likely mac + resIP is not a good signal anymore...
replyWorked for me just now on mobile safari. You get the cloudflare human test but I just clicked the box and was in. This was despite accessing the site while vpn’d from home and using multiple adblockers.
replyMaybe it’s the blocking of 3rd party cookies, because I experience similar issues with Chrome on desktop from time to time.
replyI occasionally get those loop even on chrome.
replyYeah, I also wanted to comment on this, though I think it’s technically against the rules.
replyI hit this first on my VPN, so I disconnected, then got asked again from my home wifi. I dunno why I look like a bot to Cloudflare. I hate these prompts and it’s too bad they’re all over the web.
On HN, I often see comments like this, complaining about Cloudflare blocking access to pages. It makes me wonder if it’s due to a particular setup that triggers bot detection – like Tor or no-JS – that HN readers often use, or if Cloudflare has too many false positives.
replyI think it's aggressive user profiling, so anyone with a hint of privacy is not welcomed. I can't imagine this getting any better with Chrome MCP and other tools.
replyNon-Chrome browsers constantly require Robot check
replyI don't have that _particular_ problem, but I often gripe about how no website seems to be able to remember that I've used this device before ...
reply... and only briefly pause to wonder if it's because of all the anti-cookie, anti-tracking stuff in Safari.
Those tests are funny in a way because we as humans have to prove that we’re human to a robot
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Try a browser MCP and ask it to bypass the captcha. Works for me most of the time
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