Ask HN: Do I have to use the internet slowly?

Posted by teensydata on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:12AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've run across more and more websites that are blocking me because I am fast at navigating the internet. I realize that this is probably an anti-bot safeguard but it prevents me from using websites in normal ways. Has anyone else run into this?

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Re:Ask HN: Do I have to use the internet slowly? by h2odragon on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:27AM (#41347961)

You can degrade your network connection: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-netem.8.html#EXAMPL...

if you go to far tho, you start hitting problems again. at 250ms+ latency many sites fail to work and the "bot detection" stuff bites again.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I have to use the internet slowly? by drzephyr on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:17AM (#41347884)

looks like its common https://www.quora.com/Facebook-has-blocked-me-they-said-I-wa...

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