Thank you Cloudflare for making it impossible to read news, and yes I am a human.

The other day they blocked me from accessing Kagi's web site because I was using Kagi's web browser.

boplicity 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare is increasingly a problem in terms of blocking huge geographic regions, often without the website operators even being aware this is happening. All in the name of "security."

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throwa356262 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, at least you are not in Spain.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/website-inaccessible-from...

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throwaway85825 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The Spanish government no longer had to care about the consequences of their actions since they found a new voting block.

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origin_ 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not familiar with spanish politics, care to explain?

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throwaway85825 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They just gave millions of foreigners the ability to vote for the government.

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pocksuppet 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do they not want to use the internet when football is on?

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origin_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

a quick search suggests that's just for municipal elections. As I understand the football internet blackouts are national government policy not municipal?

	▲	throwaway85825 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Regularization is a national policy. Soon to be followed by a shortened pathway to citizenship.

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juliusceasar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This person is annoyed because Spain is speaking out against Israeli warcrimes/genocide.

	▲	throwaway85825 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's quite the leap. Not that it's relevant but I have no issue with european boycott or sanctions of Israel, though warcrimes accusations are pretty toothless. Almost no leaders past or present charged with war crimes were ever arrested.

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bashkiddie 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking: Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany

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masfuerte 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's an alternative source:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-valve-cumm...

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fudged71 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mobile Safari has been giving me a complete loop on these in the past couple months, I have to switch browsers to get through. Anyone else?

	▲	NitpickLawyer 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My guess is that this is a direct response to all the claw stuff running on macs. I used to never get cf captchas from a mac + home IP (while getting plenty on my linux ws + work vpn). Now i've gotten 2 sites in the past week that not only show the captcha, but also loop once I click the human thing. Most likely mac + resIP is not a good signal anymore...
	▲	ectospheno 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Worked for me just now on mobile safari. You get the cloudflare human test but I just clicked the box and was in. This was despite accessing the site while vpn’d from home and using multiple adblockers.
	▲	itopaloglu83 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maybe it’s the blocking of 3rd party cookies, because I experience similar issues with Chrome on desktop from time to time.
	▲	hirako2000 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I occasionally get those loop even on chrome.

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pocksuppet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"The myth of consensual website use"

User: "I consent"

Website: "I consent"

Cloudflare: "I don't"

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

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codazoda 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I also wanted to comment on this, though I think it’s technically against the rules.

I hit this first on my VPN, so I disconnected, then got asked again from my home wifi. I dunno why I look like a bot to Cloudflare. I hate these prompts and it’s too bad they’re all over the web.

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dev_hugepages 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On HN, I often see comments like this, complaining about Cloudflare blocking access to pages. It makes me wonder if it’s due to a particular setup that triggers bot detection – like Tor or no-JS – that HN readers often use, or if Cloudflare has too many false positives.

	▲	ai-x 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Non-Chrome browsers constantly require Robot check
	▲	itopaloglu83 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I think it's aggressive user profiling, so anyone with a hint of privacy is not welcomed. I can't imagine this getting any better with Chrome MCP and other tools.
	▲	rconti 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't have that _particular_ problem, but I often gripe about how no website seems to be able to remember that I've used this device before ... ... and only briefly pause to wonder if it's because of all the anti-cookie, anti-tracking stuff in Safari.

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huijzer 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those tests are funny in a way because we as humans have to prove that we’re human to a robot

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HoldOnAMinute 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Coming soon:

This article requires Age Verification. Please hold up your passport to the sensor on your device to continue.

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OsrsNeedsf2P 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Try a browser MCP and ask it to bypass the captcha. Works for me most of the time