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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Cloudflare and Russia are both bad, take each other down pls
Why is cloudflare bad?
Why is this bad
Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad
The obstacles serve a specific purpose though. Do you believe this purpose is unimportant?
As usual, the purpose doesn't justify the means. The goal could and should be achieved without this nonsense
How so?
These active captchas instead of methods not visible to the user are worse at hindering nefarious use than regular human use
They're meant to prevent bot traffic to sites and protect from DDOS attacks
Except that bots already have a higher pass rate than humans, so the captcha isn’t even good at preventing bots.
Care to expand on that? Why are captchas bad?
Sorry, I assumed this was already common knowledge. There's another thread fork from a comment.
Tl;dr they're not good at their purpose and cause unneeded annoyance to users.
Agree
And the cloudflare ones are broken as fuck. It varies but I often just can't pass them. Answer it, wheel goes round and then back to having to tick it and start again. Beep boop.
If I see a cloudflare check I often just don't bother loading the site at all.
Yeah cloudflare gets a similar reaction as a paywall. Fuck this site, I'll go somewhere else