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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

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556 points campuscodi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 22:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amatecha ◴[17 Oct 24 06:43 UTC] No.41867018[source]▶
I get blocked from websites with some regularity, running Firefox with strict privacy settings, "resist fingerprinting" etc. on OpenBSD. They just give a 403 Forbidden with no explanation, but it's only ever on sites fronted by CloudFlare. Good times. Seems legit.
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wakeupcall ◴[17 Oct 24 09:59 UTC] No.41868030[source]▶
Also running FF with strict privacy settings and several blockers. The annoyances are constantly increasing. Cloudflare, captchas, "we think you're a bot", constantly recurring cookie popups and absurd requirements are making me hate most of the websites and services I hit nowdays.

I tried for a long time to get around it, but now when I hit a website like this just close the tab and don't bother anymore.

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orbisvicis ◴[17 Oct 24 12:38 UTC] No.41869080[source]▶
I have to solve captchas for Amazon while logged into my Amazon account.
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1. m463 ◴[17 Oct 24 20:50 UTC] No.41873646[source]▶
at one point I couldn't access amazon at night.

I would get different captcha, one convoluted that wouldn't even load the required images.

And I would get the oops sorry dog page for everything.

I finally contacted amazon, gave them my (static) ip address and it was good.

In other locations, I have to solve a 6-distorted-letter captcha to log in, but that's the extent of it.