Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#1

Post by dijit » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
blog.dijit.sh

Re: Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#2

Post by phillipseamore » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

To be fair, site owners are in control of those settings.

Re: Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#3

Post by falcolas » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

phillipseamore wrote: post #2

To be fair, site owners are in control of those settings.

What are the defaults of those settings? What percentage of site owners change the defaults?

It's kind of like saying "it's your own fault you didn't de-select the "track everything I do" checkbox on our privacy page".

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#4

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #3

phillipseamore wrote: post #2

To be fair, site owners are in control of those settings.

What are the defaults of those settings? What percentage of site owners change the defaults? It's kind of like saying "it's your own fault you didn't de-select the "track everything I do" checkbox on our privacy page".

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#5

Post by Dunedan » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

There is another side effect of visiting sites served by CloudFlare with disabled JavaScript: Email addresses (or any other words separated by an @) appear as "[email protected]" instead. Take this blog post from CloudFlare themselves for example: https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-performance-compariso... That's just ridiculous.

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#6

Post by asdf21 » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

Is he using a headless browser? Interesting that he won't give specifics..

Edit - Whoops, read too fast.

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#7

Post by nattaylor » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

asdf21 wrote: post #6

Is he using a headless browser? Interesting that he won't give specifics.. Edit - Whoops, read too fast.

He links to https://www.qutebrowser.org/

Re: Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#8

Post by dijit » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

asdf21 wrote: post #6

Is he using a headless browser? Interesting that he won't give specifics.. Edit - Whoops, read too fast.

I link the exact browser I use.

It's called qutebrowser, it's powered by QtWebEngine, which is chromium underneath.

Basically Chromium wrapped in python with vim-keybindings.

Re: Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#9

Post by core-questions » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

It's okay, don't worry. Cloudflare would never use this incredible power for political purposes...

...oh wait, yes, they have and they will again. We've given them the power to censor and with the power increasingly comes the onus to do so, to satisfy the political whims of an elite that doesn't like anything counter to their narrative.

Re: Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

#10

Post by hmhrex » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

phillipseamore wrote: post #2

To be fair, site owners are in control of those settings.

Which settings would those be? I'm using Cloudflare for a couple of my sites, and if I can fix this, I will. Otherwise I'll stop using Cloudflare.