Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoand it’s fucking annoying to check the box to “prove you’re a human” when trying to access almost any site. some days it will make me do it three times before letting me through
next time you’re at bat against one of these, you may try moving less diligently / efficiently to the checkbox. overall, a slowed and less exact approach. I’ve not tested this enough to REALLY say it makes a difference, but in cases where I continually fail, going slower does seem to be the time I finally get through.
I find the same for the picture puzzles where you select images that match or apply to the posted context or whatever else the mission may be.
It isn’t just annoying, it often breaks for people on less-popular browsers. Plus, it requires you to run Cloudflare’s Javascript. You think this outage was bad—what do you think would happen if someone slipped them a bit of malware?
He still doesn’t know, guys 😅
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melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
I understand the need for anti-bot or DDoS protection, but there are better and free options today. Like Anubis. So please, in the love of The Internet, move away from cloudflare. Ideally yesterday already.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
Anubis is to protect against scraping from LLMs, it has nothing to do with DDoS protection. Not only that, but the Anubis Github repo recommends most people to use Cloudflare instead, since Anubis is the “nuclear” option.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Well then we are all fked
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I’m afraid of mass adoption if that won’t be fixed.
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 days ago
Anubis isn’t even comparable to cloudflare. The reason cloudflare is so effective is that they can oversee which IPs are spamming or being abusive to certain websites, and can throw up protections quickly.
Anubis is just a prompt that wastes CPU cycles and tries to make it more expensive for AI crawlers to do so (since they care a lot about compute costs, of course)