The issue is scummy companies like cloudflare which are causing these issues. If your software is blocking legitimate users then your software is shit at its job. It's not the users fault.
Agreed, but I think the point was that the user has a workaround. Use a standard browser for the like five minutes it might take to unsubscribe from these mailing lists, a one-time operation per business, done.
If on the other hand unsubscribing from mailing lists is not the true use case and we are actually being asked to help a bot bypass safeguards… then Cloudflare is doing a great job here.
>The issue is scummy companies like cloudflare which are causing these issues. If your software is blocking legitimate users then your software is shit at its job. It's not the users fault.
But if you're going out of your way to look suspicious (ie. "I use a heavily customized Firefox config on Linux"), surely you'd agree at some point it goes from "your software is shit at its job" to "it's your fault for looking suspicious"? If you walk into bank wearing a balaclava and get stopped by security, it's not really "security is shit at its job".
natch|1 year ago
If on the other hand unsubscribing from mailing lists is not the true use case and we are actually being asked to help a bot bypass safeguards… then Cloudflare is doing a great job here.
gruez|1 year ago
But if you're going out of your way to look suspicious (ie. "I use a heavily customized Firefox config on Linux"), surely you'd agree at some point it goes from "your software is shit at its job" to "it's your fault for looking suspicious"? If you walk into bank wearing a balaclava and get stopped by security, it's not really "security is shit at its job".
ghjfrdghibt|1 year ago