David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.
Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.
hex0x@david_chisnall it's funny, everytime I try to access a website that uses Cloudflare, I have to use sth else or disable my VPN && my DNS resolver.
So if they can have my data, they let me use them. So don't tell me it is about prorection against bots.
It's about gathering data - or am I just paranoid af?
So if they can have my data, they let me use them. So don't tell me it is about prorection against bots.
It's about gathering data - or am I just paranoid af?
Zeborah@hex0x93 I know nothing about Cloudflare's data practices. But I do know a lot of sites have been forced to go with Cloudflare because so many AI bots are incessantly scraping their site that the site goes down and humans can't access it - essentially AI is doing a DDOS, and when that's sustained for weeks/months/more then the Cloudflare-type system seems to be the only way to have the site actually available to humans.
I hate it but those f---ing AI bots, seriously, they are ruining the net.
@david_chisnall @zeborah i know, and it probably isn't about data and stuff. But for me it is annoying, that it deems me as a bot, just because of some settings I enabled on my browser and system....^^