Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea

Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by viraptor on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:18AM (#27153938)

https://yacy.net/ for example. Each interested node does indexing and serving some chunk of the results.

Or in practice - each node quickly runs into a CloudFlare captcha preventing it from indexing content for a few hours/days. Since CF fronts a lot of the useful internet these days, it means it's effectively working against distributed indexing with its current captcha solution.

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Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by jgrahamc on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:20AM (#27153964)

Thanks. I'll bring this to the attention of the bots and DDoS teams.

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Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by jimktrains2 on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:51AM (#27155563)

Yacy is 18 years old and not exactly obscure. If your bots team is unaware of it it's because they've chosen to be ignorant of it.

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