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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: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday March 19, @03:45PM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 19, @03:45PM (#1397150) Journal

    Thank you. However, it is also affecting the stories that we want to collect for publication. Some sites still provide RSS feeds and they are very useful. However, Cloudflare is currently preventing the reading of those RSS feeds. This is true of both OS and some proprietary RSS readers. Apparently they are not 'browsers' so should not be allowed to access legitimate feeds on the internet. Go figure....

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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday March 19, @07:18PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Wednesday March 19, @07:18PM (#1397181) Journal

    I'm not surprised by that especially reading the posts in the thread I linked from the PM maintainer. I've always wondered for example if any Tor browsers can get past that BS. I suspect not.

    This whole Cloudflare "turnstile" browser check thing is a truly evil trend on the web...just no questions about it.