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This is untrue, but frequently misunderstood: Privacy and security are two facets of the same problem. If you don't have security, your privacy is at risk. If you don't have privacy, your security is at risk. Case in point: Many of those targeted ads contain malware. :)
Do you have any evidence of your claim.
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I sympathize with your frustration, but you also have to admit that Cloudflare is tasked with an impossible problem: from a sea of requests, identify those that are coming from robots that are disguised as humans. So there is no perfect solution. You can't use strong identity because a user can share their identity with a robot. You have to use a crapy heuristic that only works most of the time (or tell site owners i…
> but you also have to admit that Cloudflare is tasked with an impossible problem They're not tasked with anything. They choose to sell a bot detection and mitigation platform as a product, and that's a hard business to be in. If they think they can do it, great. If they can't, they shouldn't try.
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I thought it was the opposite: that instead of fingerprinting users, web services would instead just ask the browser which topics the user is interested in and display the relevant ADs. It's an explicit design goal to reduce the dependence on fingerprinting users, otherwise why would they do it. Topics are supposed to be the locally sourced privacy preserving alternative to invasive tracking. Whether Mozilla/Apple/ot…
For me the issue is a browser shouldn’t be making the information on the topics of sites I visit available to anyone who asks
The argument from supporters is that this is a step away from the “fingerprint and track” status quo MO. The argument from detractors is that it doesn't quite achieve that goal.
All you need to address your concern is for access to the API to be user-configurable.
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I have to believe you're attempting (but failing) to gaslight me you wrote: "it does seem to indicate that IPv6 is mostly pointless for human users for exactly this reason" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37050359 ) he wrote: "If you think IPv6 is mostly pointless, I think you're unaware of the fact that a significant majority of phones already use IPv6 most of the time they're on cellular" ( https://news.ycom…
What are you on about? There's no sign of 'johnklos' quoting me as you claim. It literally appears in his own words, and he even wrote it in a manner that could not possibly be confused with my style of writing. Just check my recent comment history? Frankly, it's just impossible for there to be a 17 word phrase in that comment that can be interpreted as a quotation, even by a teenager who only started learning Englis…
you're a comedian!
thanks for the laughs - anyone who can straightfacedly deny what they wrote, and people referencing it such an obvious manner that you still deny must be in it for the humor value
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What are you on about? There's no sign of 'johnklos' quoting me as you claim. It literally appears in his own words, and he even wrote it in a manner that could not possibly be confused with my style of writing. Just check my recent comment history? Frankly, it's just impossible for there to be a 17 word phrase in that comment that can be interpreted as a quotation, even by a teenager who only started learning Englis…
Please accept this award for your outstanding contributions to the field of pedantry.
I think he's in it for the humor value
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Please accept this award for your outstanding contributions to the field of pedantry.
this MichaelZuo character seems to be pretty lost in understanding how to communicate (and then denying he's doing what he's actively doing) I think he's in it for the humor value
I doubt that either of you are in this for the humor; that simply emerges from the duration and pointlessness of the argument.
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And even when it doesn't block you completely, it delays website loading, makes you jump through frustrating captchas, etc. It's probably third in the list of frustrating web behaviors in the past couple of years (behind GDPR popups and registration/paywalls that seem to have gotten much worse recently). And somehow there are some sites that I get CF delay walls on every time I visit. This feature is utterly broken f…
It's worth noting that the websites that you are visiting chose Cloudflare, and have enabled the features that irritate you. They have browser integrity enabled, have bot protection enabled, maybe turned the security level up (gitlab famously is a nuisance because they lean heavily on Cloudflare for protection). Sometimes they've wholly barred VPNs or entire geographic areas! And that is entirely the decision of webs…
Eventually I gave up. I don't even bother with their captchas or other stupid human tricks anymore. Whenever Cloudflare gets between me and the site I'm trying to use, I move on and shop somewhere else. Life's too short for this.
Hi there, I'm the PM for Cloudflare's challenge platform. I'd love to look into what the cause of the problem is, so you don't see these difficulties. > Cloudflare detected the high frequency of requests and denials (but not their faulty loop that caused this pattern of requests, of course), and tagged my browser as suspicious. I can tell you at least that we don't penalize users for this looping behavior, so this wo…
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Your alt solution is what?Everyone should build their shit to handle millions TB/s of DoS traffic?
Block the countries it comes from?