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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by selcuka on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:21PM (#28031195)
> But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason.

It is up to you to harass your visitors or not. CloudFlare does not enforce it. You can disable the firewall if you don't want that kind of protection.

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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by gsich on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:40PM (#28031328)
Cloudflare enables this behaviour. They are not guiltfree in this regard.
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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by selcuka on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:43AM (#28033564)
They enable what exactly? It's a useful tool and should definitely be activated in some use cases.

We might argue about whether it should come turned on by default or not, but as far as I remember the default setting is not a strict but a moderate protection level anyway.

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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by gsich on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:31AM (#28033856)
From parent:

> But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason.

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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by cafxx on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:25PM (#28032562)
Not sure what point we're trying to make here. Any other firewall/CDN/WAF enable you to do the same thing, to the point of many also providing ready-made protection profiles... what makes this specific member of that group special? Can you clarify?
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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by fouc on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:20PM (#28031565)
This is so true. In general, enablers do have a moral obligation over whatever they enable. People shouldn't ignore that.
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