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Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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Users in Egypt are unable to visit my Fitness website https://musclewiki.com

Cloudflare is a huge part of the internet. Often they won't respond and it appears that for whatever reason, their IP range is blocked in Egypt. We probably get 10 support emails per week. I contacted Cloudflare and they simply said there is nothing they can do.

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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I've had the exact same problem for a while. Here are some of the sites I've been unable to access (found by searching for "just a moment" in my browser history): - https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in - https://steamdb.info/login/ - https://www.zabbix.com/forum/ - https://casetext.com/ - https://namemc.com/login - https://spinroot.com/ - https://camelcamelcamel.com/ It's really annoying and Cloudflare is apparently doin…

I haven't had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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post #12

Any time a large portion of internet traffic is controlled by a single source it brings problems like this with it. All cloudflare has to do is arbitrarily decide who and who can't use the internet and effectively their word becomes law. Like most things it starts with an innocent premise (e.g. "an easy way to stop bad actors") and ends up extended to any number of arbitrary things. Worse, the argument from privacy a…

Everyone forgets that websites become almost unusable because of crawlers and bots. Website owners specifically choose for cloudflare to protect against this, it's not forced upon them by cloudflare.

Hah, you know, most crawlers were fine. The only one that actively DDOSed websites was fucking Yandex. It doesn't respect robots.txt and it will actively fight against any rate limits by spawning connections on new IPs the moment one is blocked

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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I've had the exact same problem for a while. Here are some of the sites I've been unable to access (found by searching for "just a moment" in my browser history): - https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in - https://steamdb.info/login/ - https://www.zabbix.com/forum/ - https://casetext.com/ - https://namemc.com/login - https://spinroot.com/ - https://camelcamelcamel.com/ It's really annoying and Cloudflare is apparently doin…

Yeah, gitlab also blocks me from logging in (via its cloudflare use). It did so even when we paid for it. We no longer do. (for other reasons, but anyway, good riddance)

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And who defines is an allowed crawler? Is Google the only allowed company to crawl the web? Isn't that the definition of monopoly? Could anybody still create a new search engine nowadays?

A valid crawler is following robots.txt

That's not going to be enough to pass Cloudflare.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cloudflare does not use Google's reCAPTCHA anymore, and hasn't for some time.

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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post #6

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.

Its happened a few times here too

I also have maxed out anti fingerprinting etc on FF, so it comes with the territory. I have to slowly enable JS on some sites to see if the loop will break, or i just navigate away.

I use all browsers except chrome, but i only navigate the web with FF

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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It's also annoying how that check page ends up breaking page reload in Firefox. When Cloudflare redirects you back to the page it will happen via POST. This initial POST gets captured by Cloudflare, but if you reload the page that POST will go to page itself and there's pretty good chance it doesn't know what to do with that and just shows error.

The only fix is to navigate back to page somehow, either by going to address bar and pressing enter (to navigate there again instead of reloading) or finding some link that points you back to the page.

I wouldn't be surprised if those POSTs will end up banning you from some website since they "know" you shouldn't POSTing to that page so clearly you are evil bot trying to hack them.

Re: Blocked by Cloudflare

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post #21

Users in Egypt are unable to visit my Fitness website https://musclewiki.com Cloudflare is a huge part of the internet. Often they won't respond and it appears that for whatever reason, their IP range is blocked in Egypt. We probably get 10 support emails per week. I contacted Cloudflare and they simply said there is nothing they can do.

If you don’t want to stop using CloudFlare or need a temporary solution ask your users from Egypt to use VPN- many already do as they come across similar problems for other services
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