alt Hacker NewsThere 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:
Do you by chance have that installed? I don't use Cloudflare but I am curious if that code can scrape my silly blog? [1] Trying to pick the appropriate article... I'm guessing it can. I don't do the fancy javascript or TLS fingerprint inspections, just some janky hill-billy protections, silly redirects and Antarctic voodoo.
[1] - https://blawg.nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260522-Maybe-AI-B...