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Do you have the "resist fingerprinting" setting enabled in Firefox? (You can check in about:config)
"privacy.resistFingerprinting" is "true", yes, and it'll stay that way. Why let me solve a puzzle just to block me afterwards anyway?
There's also another reason, Cloudflare is under the CLOUD Act, can't be trusted to touch the PII of EU citizens for legal reasons or anyone for moral reasons.
Yesterday I was attempting to buy a product on a small retailer's website—as soon as I hit the "add to cart" button I got a message from Cloudflare: "Sorry, you have been blocked". My only recourse was to message the owner of the domain asking them to unblock me. Of course, I didn't, and decided to buy the product elsewhere. I wasn't doing anything suspicious.. using Arc on a M1 MBP; normal browsing habits. Not sure…
VPN doesn't matter, i probably share IP with someone "flagged" via ISP.
Every site, that is except their cloudlfare dashboard.
Yesterday I was attempting to buy a product on a small retailer's website—as soon as I hit the "add to cart" button I got a message from Cloudflare: "Sorry, you have been blocked". My only recourse was to message the owner of the domain asking them to unblock me. Of course, I didn't, and decided to buy the product elsewhere. I wasn't doing anything suspicious.. using Arc on a M1 MBP; normal browsing habits. Not sure…
Bad business, guys. You gotta find another way. Blocking IP addresses is o-ver.
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> using Arc on a M1 MBP; normal browsing habits. Well i've certainly never heard of this browser before and it still seems pretty young. I'd guess it's the same issue.
I think it's also EOL/not getting updates now? I mean I never used it, their only selling point seem to have been hype.
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Arc is almost 3 (4?) years old and was the darling child of dev influencers for the better part of 2 years. It's not a niche browser, especially amongst devs that are likely to work at Cloudflare.
It's definitely a niche browser. I think I heard of it once on HN over the past few years, and I'd be surprised if there was actually more than a few thousands of people using it.
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Rate limiting based on IP, blocking obvious datacenter ASNs and blocking identifiable JA3 fingerprints is quite simple and surprisingly effective in stopping most scrapers and can be done entirely server side, I wouldn't be surprised if this catches more than half of problematic requests to the average website. But I agree that if you have a website "worth" scraping there will probably be some individuals motivated e…
> blocking obvious datacenter ASNs You block all VPN users then, and currently many countries have some kind of censorship, please don't do that. I use a personal VPN for over 5 years and that's annoying. I understand the other side and captcha/POW captchas/additional checks is okay. But give people a choice to be private/non-censorable. Enabling/disabling a VPN each minute to access the non-censored local site which…
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Arc is almost 3 (4?) years old and was the darling child of dev influencers for the better part of 2 years. It's not a niche browser, especially amongst devs that are likely to work at Cloudflare.
It's definitely a niche browser. I think I heard of it once on HN over the past few years, and I'd be surprised if there was actually more than a few thousands of people using it.
Yesterday I was attempting to buy a product on a small retailer's website—as soon as I hit the "add to cart" button I got a message from Cloudflare: "Sorry, you have been blocked". My only recourse was to message the owner of the domain asking them to unblock me. Of course, I didn't, and decided to buy the product elsewhere. I wasn't doing anything suspicious.. using Arc on a M1 MBP; normal browsing habits. Not sure…
> using Arc on a M1 MBP; normal browsing habits. Well i've certainly never heard of this browser before and it still seems pretty young. I'd guess it's the same issue.
This is going to lead two a two-class internet where new technologies will not emerge and big players will win because the gate the high is so absurdly high and random that people stop to invent.