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1343 points Hold-And-Modify | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.52s | source

Hello.

Cloudflare's Browser Intergrity Check/Verification/Challenge feature used by many websites, is denying access to users of non-mainstream browsers like Pale Moon.

Users reports began on January 31:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045

This situation occurs at least once a year, and there is no easy way to contact Cloudflare. Their "Submit feedback" tool yields no results. A Cloudflare Community topic was flagged as "spam" by members of that community and was promptly locked with no real solution, and no official response from Cloudflare:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/access-denied-to-pale-moo...

Partial list of other browsers that are being denied access:

Falkon, SeaMonkey, IceCat, Basilisk.

Hacker News 2022 post about the same issue, which brought attention and had Cloudflare quickly patching the issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317886

A Cloudflare product manager declared back then: "...we do not want to be in the business of saying one browser is more legitimate than another."

As of now, there is no official response from Cloudflare. Internet access is still denied by their tool.

1. EfficientDude ◴[] No.42957718[source]
All by design. The idea is to keep older devices, ones with perhaps no government backdoors, and unauthorized software, off the Internet completely. Same reason there's a big push to kill X11 - it runs great on computers from before hardware backdoors were common. With the Trumpenreich looming, these devices will become very useful. IF they are allowed on the Internet.
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2. willywanker ◴[] No.42959265[source]
>With the Trumpenreich looming

Weren't they useful the last time around, when 'literally Hitler' totally murdered freedom of speech until Biden the hero restored it?

3. anticensor ◴[] No.42977029[source]
Can be explained with fewer assumptions.