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Exhausted with CloudFlare Turnstile becoming the front door of every website (www.cloudflare.com)
submitted 7 months ago by plz1@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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I think this community is appropriate for this topic, since this solution is being rolled out to combat AI scraping of websites.

I don't really understand why the collective agreement is "it is better than captchas would be", when you didn't need to pass a captcha just to view a website in the first place. Why are people not more pissed off about every website suddenly requiring this laggy, sometimes actually a captcha anyways (checkbox to prove you are human) solution slowing down visits to websites?

And why can't CloudFlare offer some way for us lowly non-AI's to prove we're human, once, for our entire web experience, versus on. every. damned. website. one. at. a. time?

I counted, and I hit this turnstile solution on 28 website visits today, and sometimes more than once on the same site. That's minutes of my life I don't get back, and likely hours to days over the course of a year.

There has to be a better way...

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 7 months ago

Well, the problem is mainly the many Ai scrapers today. As well as ddos attacks happening from across the world which tons of unique ip addresses.

It's very hard to block such attacks or even scrapers. Since again the ddos attacks are coming from all countries, one request per ip. Seemly from legit house-hold IPs.

It's not just cloudflare. There are also open source projects like Anubis. Using proof of work.

Anyhow, I don't know if there is a better way. The best way is getting all those infected devices removed from the internet. And also cloud providers (AWS, GCP, alibaba etc.) should terminate accounts much faster when they are part of illegal ddos activities or illegal scrapers.