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[–] teft@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seeing as how they can't reliably detect that I'm human or not, I don't have much confidence in this.

It's relatively easy for Cloudflare to profile clients as being web scrapers. A concerning amount of internet traffic goes through their servers in plain text.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me just using Firefox on Linux seems to be enough to trigger them.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Apple’s private relay does this too. And so does auto-login.