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A new form of state-level internet filtering that restricts data flow is disrupting access to large portions of the global web for Russian citizens. Cloudflare, the world leader in DDoS protection and high-traffic load management, is being targeted by these new data caps, which appear designed to push users toward Russian-controlled services. Meanwhile, the move leaves Russian businesses dangerously exposed.

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[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Cloudflare and Russia are both bad, take each other down pls

[-] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago
[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 month ago
[-] anachrohack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

The obstacles serve a specific purpose though. Do you believe this purpose is unimportant?

[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

As usual, the purpose doesn't justify the means. The goal could and should be achieved without this nonsense

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago
[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These active captchas instead of methods not visible to the user are worse at hindering nefarious use than regular human use

[-] anachrohack@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] CybranM@feddit.nu -1 points 1 month ago

Care to expand on that? Why are captchas bad?

[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] greenbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah cloudflare gets a similar reaction as a paywall. Fuck this site, I'll go somewhere else

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