3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoCloudflare blocking AI crawlerslemmy.relayeasy.comimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1295arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1293arrow-down1imageCloudflare blocking AI crawlerslemmy.relayeasy.com3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-text
Cloudflare trying to stop AI crawling somehow! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83arrow-down1·3 months agoSeeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
minus-squarei_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s relatively easy for Cloudflare to profile clients as being web scrapers. A concerning amount of internet traffic goes through their servers in plain text.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoYeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha
Seeing as how they can’t reliably detect that I’m human or not, I don’t have much confidence in this.
It’s relatively easy for Cloudflare to profile clients as being web scrapers. A concerning amount of internet traffic goes through their servers in plain text.
Yeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha