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Six Weeks of CloudFlare Stalling; Still Blocking Niche Browsers

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17, @06:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the WWW-or-not dept.

BenFenner writes:

For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better:
2024-03-11: Cloudflare checks broken again?
2024-07-08: Cloudflare checks broken yet AGAIN?
2025-01-30: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues

This time around it has been over 6 weeks and CloudFlare has been unable or unwilling to fix the problem on their end, effectively stalling any progress on the matter with various tactics including asking browser developers to sign overarching NDAs:
Re: CloudFlare: summary and status

Some of the affected browsers:
• Pale Moon
• Basilisk
• Waterfox
• Falkon
• SeaMonkey
• Various Firefox ESR flavors
• Thorium (on some systems)
• Ungoogled Chromium

From the main developer of Pale Moon:

Our current situation remains unchanged: CloudFlare is still blocking our access to websites through the challenges, and the captcha/turnstile continues to hang the browser until our watchdog terminates the hung script after which it reloads and hangs again after a short pause (but allowing users to close the tab in that pause, at least). To say that this upsets me is an understatement. Other than deliberate intent or absolute incompetence, I see no reason for this to endure. Neither of those options are very flattering for CloudFlare.

I wish I had better news.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18, @08:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18, @08:03PM (#1397019)

    I tend to use Opera on Android, which I didn't think was niche and I've had this Cloudflare crappery now for a couple of months, if I need to access a site 'protected' by this nonsense I'll cycle through one of the other four browsers installed (currently, with Chrome being the last choice) to get around various online braindeaths like this.

    If none of them work, I might try accessing the site on the non locked-down laptop when I get home, but increasingly I go 'fuck it' and look elsewhere.

    A funny thing though, I've found that even fully up to date Chrome on Android with the phone connecting through wireguard can trip this annoying shite on sites where a 'straight' connection doesn't, unfortunately there's neither rhyme nor reason to it, sometimes it does trip the loop, other times it gets in after several attempts.