Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by tyingq on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:38PM
(#31461569)
You're saying there's not a simplistic "block Firefox rule" right? But, the user agent is surely one of the weighted features going into your ML stew. So it's plausible the poster is seeing that Firefox sends some calculation over the edge and causes blocking for them.
That is, you're not saying "Firefox doesn't change the scoring at all", right?
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by judge2020 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:51PM
(#31460692)
To add, without knowing the homepage firewall rule g2 has set up, we won't know exactly what sort of rules is triggering this, although the most likely signals they're using are either bot scores[0] or threat scores[0].
0: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/
1: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170056-U...
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by prdonahue on Saturday May 21, 2022 @03:00PM
(#31460768)
Appreciate the speculation, but using Firefox does not increase your likelihood of being flagged as a bot nor does it increase your threat score.
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by alaricus on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:48PM
(#31462230)
Care to back that up with data? The link above is demonstrating the opposite.
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by Handytinge on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:13AM
(#31608556)
They're the person responsible for this product at Cloudflare. Is that not enough to back it up?
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Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:44PM
(#31464108)
> The JavaScript Detections (JSD) engine identifies headless browsers and other malicious fingerprints.
Blocking JS is not malicious.
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by seba_dos1 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @07:08AM
(#31466892)
Neither are headless browsers.
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by tomjen3 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:42PM
(#31462164)
Can customers configure Firefox as one of the criteria for a challenge?
Re:Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
by vnkr on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:31AM
(#31465447)
Customers can create firewall rules to challenge requests using any type of request metadata. User agent is one of the filters, that can be used in manual Firewall fields.
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While we can’t comment on the specifics of any customer configuration, we do not block or challenge Firefox by default—either with our Bot Management products or with any other L7 security controls.
You can confirm this by signing up a free zone and making a request from Firefox.