The Cloudflare problem. What can be done about it?
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The Cloudflare problem. What can be done about it?
So, over the course of the past few months, more and more sites are gone. I mean, they're still up, but they have all turned into a page that reload itself over and over for a minute or so, causing the browser use a great amount of CPU, then finally pop up a page about proving one is a human. I click to prove and ... another minute while the page reloads itself over and over, using much CPU, again. And then do you know what happens? It loops back and one can start the process all over again. Weeee! Great fun, right?
Not.
So over time I've made one connection: every site that does this is provided by Cloudflare. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how can Cloudflare be fixed?
So over time I've made one connection: every site that does this is provided by Cloudflare. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how can Cloudflare be fixed?
Ensure that you allow cookies from Cloudflare is a start. Avoid any process that tries to further anonymize your connection, for example public VPN providers, they will present Cloudflare with LOTS of different connections to different sites using a small range of outbound IP addresses, or even randomize your outbound IP address each time, thus Cloudflare doesn't retain persistence of your "trusted" connection.
Protection sites like Cloudflare, and AWS Cloudfront, etc. make use of many techniques to try and identify malicious connections to websites and to mitigate these accordingly. So if people us fake user agents to something that isn't "legit", or use a VPN that's from a service previously seen to be used by scumbags, or clear cookies after every request, then it raises a red-flag to these services.
... Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how can Cloudflare be fixed?
Happy to report!
Using an android tablet, a windows pc and a slackware laptop and have never experienced any issues.
I know one site that gives a "testing connection" when sending a search query, https://www.biltema.dk/ but I don't think that's cloudflare connected. Anyway, it only gives a short delay before presenting the search....
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