3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agoCloudflare blocking AI crawlersimagemessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1354arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1352arrow-down1imageCloudflare blocking AI crawlers3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-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-up93arrow-down1·23 days agoSeeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
minus-squarei_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·23 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.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·23 days 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-up6·23 days agoFor me just using Firefox on Linux seems to be enough to trigger them.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoApple’s private relay does this too. And so does auto-login.
Seeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
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.
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.