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This 'protection' seems to have a problem with Firefox and it's privacy related settings. ๐Ÿ˜ก

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[โ€“] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, it's been an absolutely obnoxious experience. And if you're using a VPN, forget about it.

[โ€“] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

For me it doesn't let me pass if i have changed my user agent

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nope. What sort of problems?

[โ€“] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It gets stuck on the 'verify you are human' page.

Chromium has no such problems.

[โ€“] scrion@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you set protection settings all the way up in Firefox, Cloudflare will get stuck, yes. I do not consider this a shortcoming of Firefox though, my browser is doing the right thing.

Previously, I kept a Chromium instance around, but now I use a second Firefox profile that still has tracking protection enabled, 3rd party cookies restricted etc., but set to a level where e. g. Cloudflare still works. I trust Firefox to better act out my interests. Using -P, the second profile can be started without launching Firefox's profile manager.

With browsers beginning to actively fight fingerprinting techniques, I expect more sites (legit or not) that rely on these techniques to break. That is fine by me.

[โ€“] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With browsers beginning to actively fight fingerprinting techniques, I expect more sites (legit or not) that rely on these techniques to break. That is fine by me.

Yeah but I expected Cloudflare to be on top of it, not act like some scappy website strung together by duct tape.

[โ€“] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think OP is saying that Cloudflare is behaving that way by design.

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you blocking JavaScript?

I haven't even seen that page in years, despite recently switching from chrome to FF with all the common privacy plugins.

[โ€“] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No but I do have ublock origin, privacy badger, containers, user agent switcher etc.

[โ€“] Lath@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Yet I do have such problems with Chromium. Not universal though, only on some websites and only sometimes.

[โ€“] Kallioapina@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, Cloudflare has caused a lot of problems with its broken captcha the last few weeks/month. I use Brave as a backup and it lets that through no problem, which is sad.

[โ€“] kylian0087@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What I have noticed is that when using the ESR release you get blocked much more often for some reason.

[โ€“] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago

I've had to disable JShelter for it to let me in.

[โ€“] elbarto777@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its* privacy-related settings.

[โ€“] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

It is privacy settings.