3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCloudflare blocking AI crawlerslemmy.relayeasy.comimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1311arrow-down1imageCloudflare blocking AI crawlerslemmy.relayeasy.com3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
Cloudflare trying to stop AI crawling somehow! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down1·2 days agoSeeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoYeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha
minus-squareTywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 hours agoFor me just using Firefox on Linux seems to be enough to trigger them.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoApple’s private relay does this too. And so does auto-login.
minus-squarei_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·2 days agoIt’s relatively easy for Cloudflare to profile clients as being web scrapers. A concerning amount of internet traffic goes through their servers in plain text.
Seeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
Yeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha
For me just using Firefox on Linux seems to be enough to trigger them.
Apple’s private relay does this too. And so does auto-login.
It’s relatively easy for Cloudflare to profile clients as being web scrapers. A concerning amount of internet traffic goes through their servers in plain text.