Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare

• greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk man, I’ve seen hundreds of examples showcasing how they significantly reduce bot traffic. The point isn’t to make it impossible for a bot to get past it, it’s to make it so expensive per request that it’s not worth it.

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not saying the effect on bot traffic is none

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agree

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because they are anti-vpn and thus anti-privacy.

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