Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by olyjohn on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:48PM (#42578703)

Maybe you should try to care about something other than just your bottom line. I'm sorry if this sounds mean, but this attitude just turns the web into a giant monoculture because you can't be bothered to care. It actually ends up hurting everybody in the long run. Look how long we were trapped with IE6. Amazing how people forget history so quickly.

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Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by scarface_74 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:34PM (#42579194)

Everyone has limited resources. As a for profit company, the focus has to be on your bottom line. How many resources should a company use for some obscure corner case when the user can make changes?

Of course accessibility is important - ie screen reader compatibility.

A typical testing matrix in the US would be

- Safari for iOS

- Chrome for desktop and Android

- maybe Safari for desktop or you just tell Mac users to use Chrome

- Firefox if you have the time. But if not, no big deal.

We are definitely not going to test for a highly customized Firefox on Linux running over a VPN.

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Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by skydhash on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:59AM (#42622350)

There’s no test to be done there. Just respect web standards and do geoblock if you want to.

The issues I have are website pretending to be apps and apps that are SPAs for no reasons.

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Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by rad_gruchalski on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:19PM (#42579567)

> Maybe you should try to care about something other than just your bottom line.

You can do so when your bottom line is healthy. Otherwise you go out of business. That’s business 101.

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