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jherskovic on July 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header revers...

I use Safari (admittedly, with Private Cloud and a few tracking-blocking extensions) and get bombarded with Cloudflare's 'prove you are human' checkbox several times an hour.

It's already a pretty degraded experience.

randomjoe2 on July 13, 2025 [–]

I mean you're using a VPN, they can't tell the diff between you and a bunch of bots

Diti on July 13, 2025 | | [–]

Requests per second?

JeffMcCune on July 13, 2025 | | | [–]

Harder to scale, stateful.

fireflash38 on July 13, 2025 | | [–]

I think you mean they can't profit from selling data from a bunch of bots.

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