Yeah I'd rather just load a different page.

Not disabling my adblocker for any reason.

Or it's time to check the way back machine or archive.is

Sadly, all of the small shops in my country for electronics and hobby stuff all have these pages (you don't need to disable your adblocker for cloudflare challenges) because of AI. They didn't have them a year and a half ago.

Ai companies have been DDOSing all small websites so badly that they have to use this (or Anubis) in order to actually have a usable website for actual humans.

It doesn't. Some webpages have redirects that instruct you to enable javascript, disable ad blockers and disable vpn. But that makes the 'joke' fall flat.

I wonder if anyone even disables ad blockers when they see the actual message because even if I might enable js, I've never, not once, disabled ad blocker or vpn at a website's behest.

No no. I think what this prompt is doing, is dishonestly presenting a fake "stuck" captcha check and dishonestly leading the user to believe it's their ad blocker that is to blame, thus tricking them with this "strategy" to disable it.

I have adblockers, private DNS, and other tools enabled and have never once failed a Cloudflare check. Google recaptcha on the other hand asks me about motorcycles, traffic lights and busses literally dozens of times in a row.

I found it depends on your user agent rather than ad blocker...

Still doesn't always work on Waterfox.

If a site doesn't work with adblock enables I don't use it. I never turn that shit off. There is nothing on the internet I need to look at badly enough to do that. If the entire internet stopped working with adblockers I'd stop using it.

+1.

I. Fucking. Hate. Cloudflare.

It's such a huge % of the internet now. Intercepted by cloudflare. Which says I "passed". But then, gets stuck in an endless reload loop back to the cloudflare page. And never forwards me to the site itself.

Sometimes it does work. But at least half the sites, it doesn't. Totally normal things. Like recipe sites. Or a site cataloging vintage toys.

This shit is making the internet unusable for anyone who tries to keep their privacy from the co's that track every click you ever make, every site you read. I get it, sites need protection against DDOS attacks and stuff. But there has got to be a way w/o so much collateral damage.

Oh my god yes. I fucking hate Cloudflare. Everything about it is just awful and unfortunately so many websites are using it now.

Yes but AI being the cancer on cancer made companies who didn't previously have to use cloudflare turn to cloudflare to prevent the inscessent constant DDOSing of AI users and companies.

uMatrix was awesome. It's a massive shame it didn't get any more updates, because it started breaking important sites (like bank authentication) for me just by the addon being enabled even if I turned it off from its own toggle, so I had to switch to NoScript, which is simply worse (far clunkier interface and consistently fails to show all domains).

So like, 75% of the web?

I highly recommend using independent wikis, as they often have better info, and they don't support Fandom, which is a pretty awful company.

IndieWikiBuddy is great for switching over :3