I’m constantly getting bot checked these days because I do a lot of stuff when casually browsing to prevent being fingerprinted and tracked between sites. I wonder how often they just mark anyone not making them selves easy to identify as a bot.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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I wonder how Cloudflare estimates the increased rate of false positives they're getting after they made their bot detector even more oversensitive in recent weeks. It no longer likes my default javascript-enabled browser profile and I don't always bother to load another one when I get cloudflared, so >50% of visits from me are "bots".
I wonder how much of it is people who just block cloudflare or don't use JavaScript.
Bots are humans, at least in the sense that bots are initiated by humans.
So when a human's tools misbehave, the human should be held accountable (except that's not feasible).
Seen in this light, the entire internet is literally now under attack.
Bots are not humans, but their creators should still be held accountable.
The question is if Iran's massive percent of Bots is because it has a lot of bots or if its humans just largely lack internet access.