• Chozo@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I think whatever you’re doing is a little overkill for Lemmy. Normal users don’t have these issues.

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      11 months ago

      Normal users don’t have these issues.

      That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:

      • users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
      • the Tor community
      • VPN users
      • users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
      • privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
      • blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
      • the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
      • people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots

      There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.