| ▲ | shiomiru 2 hours ago | |
> My guess is that OP's browser is getting banned because his WebKitGTK has a weird fingerprint, not because of webgl or whatever. So why is Cloudflare saying the author got blocked because of WebGL? > > Such things are blocked in WebKit, and have been for years. Meaning it's tracking so awful that even Apple would block it, and as far as I can tell it's not the kind of privacy protection you can easily disable in it. > This is also false. Webgl fingerprinting works just fine on Safari. They might try to mitigate it by adding some noise, but that's not so different than what firefox does, and is certainly not "blocked". While I don't have an iDevice to try, the assumption that they are special cased is fair... because they are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-... (Yes, this is basically WEI in a shinier package.) | ||
| ▲ | gruez 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
>So why is Cloudflare saying the author got blocked because of WebGL? No idea. I can't even reproduce the error OP got with webgl disabled. | ||
