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Have you considered alternatives to Cloudflare? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 weeks ago by xianjam@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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Hi there, I wouldn't be making this post if I saw another one about it, but...

I both dislike centralization and nonfree Javascript. I believe the spirit of Lemmy embraces both ideals, however, Cloudflare both promotes a centralized internet that requires the execution of nonfree scripts to interact with it. I understand that bots (epsecially LLM powered) are a pervasive issue that plagues this (and many other) communities. I also understand that being logged-in prevents the requirement of using Cloudflare's captcha, so that only a one-time login is required, although I'm constantly blocking requests to cloudflareinsignts.com.

Finally, I understand that I the alternatives are not necessarily effective, although it seems to work for many projects. I'm not saying other solutions are better for short or medium term, but I was wondering if the management were planning on eventually replacing it.

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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you sure this is a Cloudflare issue?

For shits and giggles I logged into programming.dev with Firefox Focus, and suffice to say I'm posting this with that browser.

I also did some tweaking and I did noticed that it I configure Firefox Focus to strip all types of tracking (akin to NoScript) then Cloudflare complains about extensions.

[–] blamster19@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly that, Cloudflare complains about extensions. It's a matter of aggressive tracking protection. I can view Anubis protected sites just fine, only the Cloudflare ones prevent access.

[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly that, Cloudflare complains about extensions.

What you are describing is not browser incompatibility. It's default fallback page that Cloudflare shows when it fails to run its javascript code.

Site owners such as programming.dev maintainers purposely onboarded Cloudflare to run those scripts, as that's how their anti-abuse system works.

[–] blamster19@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The 'browser incompatibility' is what's written on the fallback page. The question was about the problem that migration from Cloudflare would solve and I provided one particular problem. Not that it affects me personally, because I use a standalone app for Lemmy, but I assume there are some people that do not wish to run Cloudflare js

[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

The ‘browser incompatibility’ is what’s written on the fallback page.

No. The page clearly says "Incompatible browser extension or network configuration".

It then lists a number of troubleshooting steps to get the page to work.

The question was about the problem that migration from Cloudflare would solve and I provided one particular problem.

I don't think so. Site maintainers are expecting your browser to run the scripts to detect and prevent abuse, and you are going way out of your way to not run them. You are not describing a problem.