• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    they cant get their ai to check a box that says “I am not a robot”? I’d think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task. And robots.txt files were basically always voluntary compliance anyway.

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      Cloudflare actually fully fingerprints your browser and even sells that data. Thats your IP, TLS, operating system, full browser environment, installed extensions, GPU capabilities etc. It’s all tracked before the box even shows up, in fact the box is there to give the runtime more time to fingerprint you.

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        24 hours ago

        Yeah and the worst part is it doesn’t fucking work for the one thing it’s supposed to do.

        The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.