Blocked by Cloudflare

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Post by jrhawley » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 1:55 PM UTC

Blocked by Cloudflare
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Post by warrenm » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

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Post by kozhevnikov » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:21 PM UTC

> I temporarily disabled extensions. I opened a private browsing window.

FYI When using Chrome, incognito window carries a lot of baggage. For issues like this use Guest profile as it doesn't include extensions, caches, storage, etc. Optionally do a Google search first to seed it with cookies.

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Post by MichaelZuo » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:22 PM UTC

This is a bit tangential to the author's point but it does seem to indicate that IPv6 is mostly pointless for human users for exactly this reason.

Since it's so much easier to hide behind a new unique address, compared to IPv4, that any service such as Cloudflare would need to be extremely aggressive in blocking to meet their internal metrics and customer advertised minimum thresholds.

So much so that it actually costs more to use IPv6 then sticking with IPv4.

I imagine the scenario described by the author would become more and more common as time goes on as more of the world's internet users becomes harder to distinguish.

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Post by jsnell » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

kozhevnikov wrote: post #3

> I temporarily disabled extensions. I opened a private browsing window. FYI When using Chrome, incognito window carries a lot of baggage. For issues like this use Guest profile as it doesn't include extensions, caches, storage, etc. Optionally do a Google search first to seed it with cookies.

Doing a Google search will not populate any cookies Cloudflare could access.

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Post by thedaly » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:25 PM UTC

I've been getting stuck in the “browser integrity check” loop a lot on firefox lately. Not an issue in chrome, not using a vpn, etc. I assume it is some combination of extensions and/or settings in firefox.

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Post by alberth » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

I'm surprised Apple PAT and Google WEI wasn't mentioned in the article.

Especially since Apple has partnered with Cloudflare on PAT.

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Post by jonatron » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

Does anyone who knows about GDPR know if being blocked by a CDN comes under "Automated individual decision-making"?

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Post by CharlesW » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

> The next day, I tried accessing a web page internal to my company… […] I couldn’t get past a security check page because of issues in Cloudflare’s software. […] The silliness of it all is that I was on my work device the whole time, which was behind my workplace VPN.

This seems more like an "IT department gone mad" problem than a Cloudflare problem. I'm surprised they'd rather switch to Chrome than submit a support ticket.

Having used passkeys for a month+ now via macOS/iOS/1Password betas, I don't understand how they're related or the author's concerns. Couldn't you just replace "passkey" with "password" in all of their questions?

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Post by kozhevnikov » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 3:28 PM UTC

jsnell wrote: post #5

kozhevnikov wrote: post #3

> I temporarily disabled extensions. I opened a private browsing window. FYI When using Chrome, incognito window carries a lot of baggage. For issues like this use Guest profile as it doesn't include extensions, caches, storage, etc. Optionally do a Google search first to seed it with cookies.

Doing a Google search will not populate any cookies Cloudflare could access.

Of course not, but it is less likely to trigger manual recaptcha on the site you're trying to visit in Guest mode.