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Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by joepie91_ on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:18AM (#27153944)
A search engine which is not run centrally by one organization on infrastructure in a known network, but rather something like YaCy where individual users run crawler nodes on networks that vary over time.

Which makes "contact us for an exception" a no-go, as the relevant source IPs will constantly be changing.

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Re:Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a... by vntok on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:33AM (#27155355)
Yeah, I certainly don't want those crawlers anywhere near my servers. Block by default and allow site admins to unblock should they want to seems like the best way. It is also already how it works with Cloudflare.
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