Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder.

Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.

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scotty79 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Are you still reading webpages personally instead telling your AI to do it?

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bornfreddy 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just had 10 rounds of busses, motorcycles and fire hydrants with Google before I decided I don't actually want to see that page so much. So Cloudflare is unfortunately not the only offender here.

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jwr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had similar thoughts: "let's convince everyone to outsource the decision on who can access their websites to us, because BOTS BOTS BOTS" and "let's make life easier for bots to do things".

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moritzruth 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First you spread the disease, then you sell the cure.

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deadbabe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this is more of a “keep friends close but enemies closer” type thing.

	▲	TeMPOraL 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's business so they have neither enemies nor friends, just various breeds of cattle to milk.
	▲	throw1234567891 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sounds more like “let’s make money twice”.

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IncreasePosts 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure they don't want humans to have that experience - the issue is that the human behavior looks very bot-like. This is usually only experienced by people whose setup is peculiar

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isodev 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But think of the shareholders

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deadbabe 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Anyone can be a shareholder.

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horacemorace 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Said the rich swe, fully oblivious of many who struggle to feed their own children.

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copperx 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I thought there were no rich swes anymore?

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skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's unnecessarily presumptuous.

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deadbabe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cloudflare is in the S&P500. If you have a 401k diversified in broad market indexes then most likely… you are a shareholder.

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Denzel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

About half of US households don’t have any retirement at all. Making their point that “shareholders” are a distinct class separate from the whole of the population.

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tough an hour ago | parent | next [-]

and sitll the US seems to be one of the biggest markets educated on "being a shareholder" im sure Europe has smaller percentage of them.

	▲	TeMPOraL 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yup. Over this side of the pond, stock market is this weird socially acceptable gambling for rich people.

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theplumber an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This sounds like Elon’s IPO…I give you 0.000000000009% of my company for your whole savings account. Now have a part of the pie!

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georgemcbay an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> About half of US households don’t have any retirement at all.

...and the top 10% by wealth own 90% of the stock market.

So even among the half that do have retirement savings in 401ks and the like it is on average very little compared to how much the truly wealthy have invested.

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cj 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

No, Cloudflare does not meet the criteria for inclusion in the S&P 500.

	▲	bornfreddy 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting... I wanted to prove you wrong but it looks like you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

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j45 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a clean way to charge AI to read content too.