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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

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Re: ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

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Post by beering »

superkuh wrote: post #7
beering wrote: post #2

So are you able to get free inference now that you decrypted this?

It doesn't look like it in the full sense of "free". But part of how one pays these services is by running a permissive modern browser which allows the corporation to spy on you even when you already paid in currency. In a sense by depriving them of the ability to easily spy on your this workaround is closer to "free".

They already see everything I’m doing because I send my prompts to them. What “workaround” are you referring to?

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Post by londons_explore »

I just don't understand why bot owners can't just run a complete windows 11 VM running Google Chrome complete with graphics acceleration.

You can probably run 50 of those simultaneously if you use memory page deduplication, and with a decent CPU+GPU you ought to be able to render 50 pages a second. That's 1 cent per thousand page loads on AWS. Damn cheap.

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Post by appreciatorBus »

simonw wrote: post #6

Presumably this is all because OpenAI offers free ChatGPT to logged out users and don't want that being abused as a free API endpoint.

Yup.

Coincidentally about an hour ago, I wanted to look something up in ChatGPT and I happened to be in a browser window I don’t normally use, with no logged in accounts. I assumed it wouldn’t work, but to my surprise with no account, no cookies of any kind it took my query and gave me an answer.

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Post by EGreg »

Why does ChatGPT slow down so much when the conversations get long, while Claude does compaction?

My best guess is -- ChatGPT is running something in your browser to try to determine the best things to send down to the model API –- when it should have been running quantized models on its own server.

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Post by poly2it »

londons_explore wrote: post #12

I just don't understand why bot owners can't just run a complete windows 11 VM running Google Chrome complete with graphics acceleration. You can probably run 50 of those simultaneously if you use memory page deduplication, and with a decent CPU+GPU you ought to be able to render 50 pages a second. That's 1 cent per thousand page loads on AWS. Damn cheap.

If you know of a simple way to run a Windows 11 VM with good graphics acceleration (no GPU passthrough), please contact me.

Re: ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

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Post by onion2k »

lxgr wrote: post #14

It's absurd how unusable Cloudflare is making the web when using a browser or IP address they consider "suspicious". I've lately been drowning in captchas for the crime of using Firefox. All in the interest of "bot protection", of course.

Is that because botnets spoof being Firefox? It's not really fair to blame Cloudflare it is. That's on the bots.
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