Has this occurred to y’all? My browser as of lately suddenly checks. Even if I just search on “remove trackers” and a lot of normal links, I get the note “we nEed to VEriFY yOURE not a ROBOT”… it feels like Cloudflare et al are trying to force man in the middle attacks on you. And this also occurs on other browsers with other kinds of ““verifiers””.
The web’s becoming cancerous. I hate this.
All. Of. The. Damn. Time.
The more private you try to be, the more you will hit those.
I see a couple diff behaviors. Sometimes, it succeeds and it lets me through. Sometimes, it “succeeds” but gets in an endless reload loop of the cloudflare page, and never forwards to the site. Sometimes, it convinces itself I am a robot and blocks me entirely.
No idea what drives that diff. Maybe there’s some kind of threshold sites can set, or sth like that.
I have much better luck getting past the non-cloudflare bot verifiers. There are some competitors, I forgot the names now.