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Disgusting and unsurprising.
Most web admins do not care. I've lost count of how many sites make me jump through CAPTCHAS or outright block me in private browsing or on VPN. Most of these sites have no sensitive information, or already know exactly who I am because I am already authenticating with my username and password. It's not something the actual site admins even think about. They click the button, say "it works on my machine!" and will happily blame any user whose client is not dead-center average.
Enter username, but first pass this CAPTCHA.
Enter password, but first pass this second CAPTCHA.
Here's another CAPTCHA because lol why not?
Some sites even have their RSS feed behind Cloudflare. And guess what that means? It means you can't fucking load it in a typical RSS reader. Good job!
The web is broken. JavaScript was a mistake. Return to ~~monke~~ gopher.
Fuck Cloudflare.
LibreWolf is next, and it's not exactly niche. I'm seeing it more and more, and LW defaults, even dropping resist settings, gets bounced by CloudFlare every time.
Wouldn't that also block Firefox by proxy?
Doesn't seem to. I turned off all the LW resist options, plus all my extensions, and still ended up in an infinite loop. But same extensions in FF doesn't seem to have an effect.
And so far LibreWolf and Icecat have both worked fine for me.