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marcosscriven 5 hours ago

Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.

dmitrygr 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.

marcosscriven 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine. In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.

retired 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s basically “give me your IP address before you can continue so we can better data mine you”

as1mov 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.

calmworm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not use a captcha or turnstile?

retired 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net.

What bots are using Apple Private Relay?

Xkeeper 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are?

I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else: https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png

The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.

Telaneo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.

Xkeeper 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you mean the block page, yes, that's just the YouTube embed. You'll see the same results on any wiki page that has a YouTube embed for the same reason; it's not tracking or anything I have control over (other than outright not having YouTube embeds). But I think if anyone has concerns over that, they're better addressed at the local-user level by disabling all unauthorized iframes.

retired 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On the “ Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now” page I get tracked by Google, YouTube and DoubleClick according to the report by Safari.

I also have 924 kilobyte of data stored on my device after visiting tcrf.net without any consent.

Telaneo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(websit...

LRDEV111 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ooo free data!