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Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone (blog.cloudflare.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've actually noticed this in some websites the past ~two months. It's neat to have a captcha that finally doesn't need slowly clicking images to pass through.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Second, we find that a few privacy-focused users often ask their browsers to go beyond standard practices to preserve their anonymity. This includes changing their user-agent (something bots will do to evade detection as well), and preventing third-party scripts from executing entirely. Issues caused by this behavior can now be displayed clearly in a Turnstile widget, so those users can immediately understand the issue and make a conscientious choice about whether they want to allow their browser to pass a challenge.

Those of you that browse the internet with JS disabled (e.g. using NoScript), the time of reckoning has finally come. A huge swatch of internet will no longer be accessible without enabling javascript.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a web developer who's worked in the industry for 16 years, every snowflake requiring me to work harder to support their "choices" is just an annoyance. I get wanting to reduce tracking etc, but in all honesty, the 0.0X% of users running tons of blockers and JS off are in reality just easier to track, in comparison to hiding in the mass of regular users who might be running an ad blocker (or nothing).

As long as your browser is making requests, you'll never be invisible.

The change needs to come from regulation level imho.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couldn't agree more.

It's great you can do it and you're free to, but not using javascript often means revamping the whole codebase and making everything 5x more complicated.

Which just won't happen to make 6 users happy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amen. We do provide text versions though, but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

Well no shit, have they ever wondered why the language was created in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a god damn funny though.

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