I freaking love this
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Why not? Most of the complaints people have with Cloudflare regarding CAPTCHAs and user-hostile behavior are opt-in features that are not enabled by default. A website behind Cloudflare needs to enable extra protection to opt into the CAPTCHAs. If your issue is more generally with a single provider becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly exist…
A global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. Not to mention is anti-competitive. But, importantly, Cloudflare is also very hostile to Tor. A number of people in the world rely on it for their security and safety.
Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do this, especially considering that sites like Google give Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether. And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good faith.
Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but it's only those that opted into the strictest security settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience, the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too unfriendly, for the most part).
I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users. If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
A global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. Not to mention is anti-competitive. But, importantly, Cloudflare is also very hostile to Tor. A number of people in the world rely on it for their security and safety.
Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do this, especially considering that sites like Google give Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether. And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good faith. Some sites are still…
Yeah, as annoying as the CAPTCHAs are, at least Cloudflare is aware of and acknowledges the problem, and is actively working on solutions like Privacy Pass. Much more than can be said for many other services that block Tor.
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#125For those wondering, the entire top banner is the volume bar. Just drag the volume icon to the left.
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#127If you wish to listen without the website popping up, just format the stream url like so: https://stream.rekt.network/datawave.ogg https://stream.rekt.network/nightride.ogg https://stream.rekt.network/chillsynth.ogg https://stream.rekt.network/rekt.ogg https://stream.rekt.network/rektory.ogg
My chrome got served mp3, when these streams (which are opus) exist, and chrome is definitely capable of playing them, as they play as I click them.
Why send me mp3?
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#128This is amazing. Excellent site, quality music and great for programming. One thing that would be awesome would be a bandcamp link for the artists that show up -- I know that's something I look for (manually) when I hear a really great track that really fits with what I like to listen to.
Yep, this is actually on the cards. I've got nowplaying info returning spotify links to artist's tracks. The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago, so i gotta manage my records semi-manually
> The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago
Out of curiosity, was this before or after the Epic acquisition?
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spegel Online also does "pay or okay" (pay or accept tracking), so maybe at some point it's time to re-evaluate their respectability.
Many media do this these days, it's become an industry standard. And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1]. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...
> good journalism
lol
I do agree though, on a more general level: it does take money to produce those articles, authors gotta get paid.
However, IMHO, not at any cost.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, this is actually on the cards. I've got nowplaying info returning spotify links to artist's tracks. The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago, so i gotta manage my records semi-manually
> The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago Out of curiosity, was this before or after the Epic acquisition?
Well before, some stray dev API keys were floating around (they never fully turned the API off, just stopped providing keys) but i think its mostly dead now.
I was hoping Epic would get the API back up and running.