Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by jiggawatts on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:22PM (#23902923)

The "human detector" of the modern internet doesn't accept disabled people as sufficiently human. That's... the most dystopian thing I've heard in a while!

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by userbinator on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:37PM (#23903323)

In the other direction, Google thinks I'm a bot if I use complex search queries (exclusions, site:, quotes, etc.) in an attempt to find what I'm looking for. Apparently it thinks I'm too intelligent to be a human.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by nikanj on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:48PM (#23903386)

You’re not profitable enough. You’re insisting on finding the thing you want, instead of settling for what Google is pushing today.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by anchpop on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:21PM (#23903531)

Since they're on HN they likely use uBlock, which means that they're not profitable for Google regardless of how they search

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by kjeetgill on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @01:32AM (#23904537)

I get that you meant that sardonically but it's worth pointing out that it would be even more unprofitable implementing ways to catch and redirect you.

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