they cant get their ai to check a box that says "I am not a robot"? I'd think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task. And robots.txt files were basically always voluntary compliance anyway.
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Cloudflare actually fully fingerprints your browser and even sells that data. Thats your IP, TLS, operating system, full browser environment, installed extensions, GPU capabilities etc. It's all tracked before the box even shows up, in fact the box is there to give the runtime more time to fingerprint you.
Yeah and the worst part is it doesn't fucking work for the one thing it's supposed to do.
The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.
Words cannot describe how much I hate this person
I hate that these bots ruin my read it later app. :(
Oh no!
Here comes the ridiculous offer to buy Google chrome with money they don't have: easy delicious scraping directly from the user source
I can’t get over their CEO that looks like a nine year old. Not sure what it is about him
Cry me a river
Gee that's a real removed it ain't it perplexity?