I’ve always heard/known that #Cloudflare is more ridiculous internationally compared to the States, and now I’m experiencing it (impossible to bypass interstitials) for myself on this trip 😭
Looks like someone in Sweden got up & thought it's a good day to fire up an Azure instance for AI training, using the well-known "Firefox/72" scraper. Well, not with my photos.
It's still going on, but the amount of requests would already equal ~2 GB in volume. One scraper. In less than 24h.
This is the reality when you have a website with visual content. Isn't AI great?
I'm super sceptical about this casino's guy #Cloudflare article. Why? Because I know that casinos are a huge problem for Cloudflare, and it personally affected me as a user back when who lived in a country that actively fights illegal casinos.
Casinos constantly set up mirrors on Cloudflare to circumvent government placed blocks, so I totally can see why Cloudflare wanted to push them on Enterprise—namely, they probably wanted them to use BYOIP, and that casino decided to throw a tantrum.
Here’s one of the many reasons why I stick to simple, replicable, and quickly restorable setups. When you don't have control over your data or rely solely on a specific service, everything could go wrong in an instant.
I cannot see the image because it’s posted in the walled garden of #Cloudflare, which excludes me. Would someone please repost the image on an open-access instance or website so everyone can view it?
Can say that my #Cloudflare#R2 block storage for #Mastodon is massively growing. A year ago it was stable at ~80-89Gb, but lately it's heading to 200Gb+ #Mastoadmin
How do I get my home IP (via Spectrum) off of the #CloudFlare bad list?
The soccer program my oldest is a part of has a website that uses cloudflare and every time I try to use it from home I'm blocked. My cell phone connection is fine (as are any coffee shop wifi connections).
Help?
Edit: for the record, I do have a OpenVPN connection going at times. Would be a pain if that was the culprit.
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Hat jemensch von euch Erfahrung mit eines diesen Alternativen oder gar sogar mit einer nicht aufgeführten? Wenn ja, welches könnt ihr aus welchen Argumente und Gründen empfehlen?
(Ich zweifle immer noch welches am "sichersten" und "daten sparsam" ist)
Today, between #gitlab#cloudflare and #firefox, I'm getting an endless loop of some silly attempt to verify that I am human. So it says at least, I don't think it can, but maybe it is recognizing that and that keeps it looping :-) Safari works.
The systemcrafters website is on #cloudflare. This not only enables a tech giant to create profiles of people. #survillancecapitalism It's also very annoying to pass these "verify you are a human" checks when using tor.
Please move to a less invasive provider. Thanks. @daviwil
My host informed me that it is possible to integrate #Cloudflare into my websites to take the pressure off my hosting account CPU (if I understand this correctly), which is already high because I upgraded my services to prevent problems with my websites not loading. It only happens every once in a while, but still.
I thought Cloudflare would be used before hosting, not after. So I am very confused. Going to take a while to wrap my head around this.
@mjgardner@Perl@ChristosArgyrop@ovid Certainly it’s an embarrassment considering #Sourceforge has recently joined the exclusive walled-garden of #Cloudflare. I cannot reach any sourceforge.net/* pages. But I can reach perltidy.sourceforge.net because it’s CF with Tor whitelisted. However, I’ll still avoid it on principle. I don’t think I’ve filed bug reports there but certainly I will not in the future.
Little things you can do to save the environment (jlai.lu)