Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
by superkuh on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:36PM
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Cloudflare is running the largest and longest denial of service attacks in the history of the internet by acting as arbitrary gatekeeper to important government sites like congress.gov. I haven't been able to load it in years.
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Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
by blahyawnblah on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:51PM
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It loads fine for me. Maybe you have some other problem?
Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
by superkuh on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:31PM
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Nope. It's because the cloudflare captchas require a bleeding edge browser. If one uses a modern commercial browser it works and you've never even presented with a captcha. But in both cases I am tunneling to a VPS to avoid Comcast/Xfinity's MITM injections of javascript into pages and that adds some oddness to my connections. Comcast has a monopoly on high speed internet in my town and I cannot even get DSL or I'd switch.
Lacking lived experience re: discrimination is something that's pretty common. I hate to compare my entirely optional 'software veganism' struggles with real discrmination issues, but just because you don't experience discrimination doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I go to online stores, government services, even places of recreation and I get denied service because I have to tunnel to avoid my ISP's unethical practices and I don't use a cloudflare approved browser. It feels bad.
Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
by quesera on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:12PM
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Tell me more? Your setup seems unique and confusing.
Browsing through a proxy does not need to change your User-Agent. I do this all the time.
Xfinity is not MITMing HTTPS sites! You control your trusted CA list.
You don't need to allow JavaScript to run on all sites.