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onion2klast Sunday at 8:59 PM4 repliesview on HN

Is that because botnets spoof being Firefox? It's not really fair to blame Cloudflare it is. That's on the bots.


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doctajlast Sunday at 9:21 PM

In what way would that not be fair? Their product giving false positives (unnecessary challenges for a normal browser humans commonly use) to real people is definitely their fault.

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lxgrlast Sunday at 10:22 PM

No, using a stupid authentication/verification method with lots of false positives is always on whoever deploys it.

Imagine an apartment building with a flimsy front door lock that breaks all the time, and the landlord only telling you that that can't be helped because of all the burglars.

josephcsiblelast Sunday at 10:26 PM

If it's just as easy to spoof being Chrome as it is to spoof being Firefox, then it is indeed fair to blame Cloudflare if they give Firefox users more CAPTCHAs than Chrome users.

conradkaylast Sunday at 9:09 PM

Not really, there's camoufox but the vast majority use modified chrome/chromium