alt Hacker News>I wonder if the website owners realise at all how many actual users they lose by this sort of "protection."
How many people do you think are browsing with a weird enough config (eg. custom browser like OP, or some weird config like firefox with fingerprinting protection on a raspeberry pi) to trip cloudflare's protection?
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Well… I know plenty people in my circle affected by this. Just have a slightly outdated system you simply can't afford to update: it's way to easy to get cut off like this. IMHO, a rather systematic discrimination of poorer people.
There are dozens of us :)
In my experience what really makes it loop every single time though is JShelter. CF doesn't like having your fingerprintable data bits messed with.
There are legitimate uses for non-instrusive, ethical and legal scraping, but some of us have had to resort to extreme measures:
I got locked out of some websites by Cloudflare Turnstile on some very standard configurations, like an iPhone on Safari, or a Windows 11 desktop with Firefox or Edge, neither with a VPN on. I never found out why.