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Ask HN: Frequent Cloudflare Captcha/Blocking on various websites?

10 points| wasi0013 | 2 years ago

Most of the websites that are protected with cloudflare are harder to access these days. Sometime they just put me in an infinite loop of JS challenges, or directly blocks the access and doesn't even show the JS/captcha challenges at all. Cloudflare-wrap also doesn't help.

It's quite annoying. Anyone else having similar issues?

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solardev|2 years ago

Are you using Firefox or a VPN/TOR, or outside the US?

You can try Cloudflare Privacy Pass and see if it helps you: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/privacy-pass/

wasi0013|2 years ago

Yes, Outside of US. No, not using Firefox. VPN has little to no effect, when it happens. I even tried their own product cloudflare-wrap. It makes things worse sometime, which is an irony.

Privacy pass needs to be configured/enabled on the website's end or zone, no? I'm somewhat skeptical on using such extensions, I would rather avoid going to the websites unless it's a necessity.

porkbeer|2 years ago

Welcome to the digital ghetto.