Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
blog.cloudflare.com
I've actually noticed this in some websites the past ~two months. It's neat to have a captcha that finally doesn't need slowly clicking images to pass through.
I've actually noticed this in some websites the past ~two months. It's neat to have a captcha that finally doesn't need slowly clicking images to pass through.
Those of you that browse the internet with JS disabled (e.g. using NoScript), the time of reckoning has finally come. A huge swatch of internet will no longer be accessible without enabling javascript.
As a web developer who's worked in the industry for 16 years, every snowflake requiring me to work harder to support their "choices" is just an annoyance. I get wanting to reduce tracking etc, but in all honesty, the 0.0X% of users running tons of blockers and JS off are in reality just easier to track, in comparison to hiding in the mass of regular users who might be running an ad blocker (or nothing).
As long as your browser is making requests, you'll never be invisible.
The change needs to come from regulation level imho.
Couldn't agree more.
It's great you can do it and you're free to, but not using javascript often means revamping the whole codebase and making everything 5x more complicated.
Which just won't happen to make 6 users happy
Amen. We do provide text versions though, but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.
Well no shit, have they ever wondered why the language was created in the first place?
It's a god damn funny though.
Ya, I feel like disabling Javascript should not be "beyond standard practice".
Mull with RethinkDNS on mobile, 'cool, so the internet just became less accessible'.
I just tested my favourite cloudflare-blocked site and it still hangs on "verifying the security of your connection" in my figerprinting-resistant browser profile.
Yeah I get infinite loops on half the Internet. It's infuriating and should be illegal for them to deny my as a customer just because they can't track me
How does any of this fit into the reality that you can pay $1 per 1000 captchas for a real, actual human to solve them? It seems like so much effort is put into this cat&mouse narrative with bot makers, ignoring the reality that sometimes labour is actually much cheaper.
It's about creating at least a small barrier for not-very motivated people.
If a script kiddie wants to create a couple accounts and spam a bit, paying for and integrating such a service might just discourage them from actually taking the time.
Just a small cost if you're dedicated though, for sure
Given that it gets rid of captchas, it neatly evades that issue.
Their goal wasn’t to improve bot blocking, though, but to deter real people less and bots just as much, and it seems they’ve achieved that.
Cloudflare MITMs a good portion of internet traffic. They can even see inside SSL tunnels for most websites you visit. It's an absolute privacy nightmare.
But how it works? I don't see any explanation on the post nor CF web site. It looks magical.