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Seems there is internet-wide "Cloudflare" outage, at least on my end.
Why the hell is so much of the 'net dependent on "Cloudflare" anyway?
Why the hell is so much of the 'net dependent on "Cloudflare" anyway?
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Sure would be a shame if your little website got DDoSed off the Internet. You know, for a small fee we can take care of that for you.
Like the mob, but less honest.
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Yeah it means your browser isn't playing nice with whatever Cloudflare checks.
Because Cloudflare is evil
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They want to monetize the gatekeeping of the internet. Something that was virtually free to access and free to consume is now being gatekept by companies that did not produce any of it.
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This is horrifying.
Almost as horrifying is the rigamraole to log into an old account when you forgot the password and requires OTP codes and reset links. I had this happen over the weekend, and here is the approximate rundown:
> Goto site, realize I forgot the password.
> Click on forgot password.
> "We've emailed you a reset link on account 1."
> Go to log into account 1
> "We've send an OTP code to account #2."
> Log into account 2 and get the code to log into account 1.
> Log into account 1 to get the reset link.
> Reset password on original account.
Calgon take me away!
I forget what mundane activity I was doing recently that required either a captcha of grainy images or an audio challenge to pass through the site. Apart for people using VPNs, there seems to be no rhyme or reason beyond when a captcha is or isn't required and it's frustrating to any end user dealing with this crap. Meanwhile, the nefarious activity this is supposed to stop continues without any sign of relenting.
From my past lurking on a network-related newsgroup, the TL; DR answer is that many of networks engaging in abusive tactics have their ASNs routed through providers that either don't care or facilitate their bad activities - or even engage in those bad activities themselves. ASN deregistration today is more politically motivated than it is the efforts to address legitimate acts of net abuse. This is where blocklists come into play as reps from many of these abusive providers would grovel on the newsgroup to be removed from the various blocklists only to be told by BOFH types to either boot their abusive clients from the network or FOAD.
Between AI and more sophisticated efforts, phishing emails are so convincing now to the unsuspecting it's scary, - especially when people instinctively react in panic and don't take time to double-check the situation.
I received an email claiming a domain name had expired. I found this odd because (1) The registrar normally sends several reminder emails within 30 days of the expiration date, and (2) A quick attempt to browse the site at that moment brought it up without issue. I eventually logged into the registrar's control panel and saw the domain wasn't expiring any time soon. I checked the email again and the embedded link went to an unfamiliar site that presumably stole victims' registrar credentials.
Sadly, today's kids have an attention span shorter than the life span of a fruit fly and they're more interested in fad trends. Even with internet safety lectures in the middle schools all around me, there's still news reports of teens engaging in internet behavior they shouldn't be and adults acting all Pikachu-faced surprised over it. It doesn't help that students are also conditioned to believe whatever they're told without question when "Trust but verify" is the minimum advice to follow when doing stuff on the internet.
Not only that, but I like the spam and phish attempts that use the left hand part of the email address as the first word in the subject as if it's automatically the recipient's first name. That's one of my giveaways an email is likely not legitimate.
I've had that happen at least once in the past year. Not sure if it's the result of VPN usage, too much site traffic, a random glitch, or some mix of all of the above.
Name/brand recognition most likely - especially if end users feel too intimidated to perform site security and DDOS mitigation on their own.
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Fandom/Wikia is now working with Cloudflare and a few other companies to heavily push back against ad blocking. They are rolling out a system where if they detect any sort of ad or script blocking they disable the entire site. So you will need to whitelist everything on the site because if even one element will not load the site will respond by blacking out all scripts and visuals.
We've talked about this before. Every once in a while Cloudflare stops working on certain browsers or sites. This can last hours but sometimes it lasts for weeks. There was an issue with Firefox where Cloudflare didn't work properly for months and they took forever to fix the issue. Cloudflare has a near monopoly on DDOS protection and probably have as much control over the net infrastructure than Google and Chrome.
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It is amazing how they can keep coming up with endless new and innovative ways that were previously not even imagined to make the internet far more worse than it already is.
And of course that bullshit will likely spread to every site that runs on that "Cloudflare" bullshit. FFS.
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it's not just cloudflare. It's also seen with AWS for the most part.
It both of them fails, then the net is completely fucked. Also not to mention the similar inversion circlejerk these companies have just like AI development.
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More like. Cloudflare, AWS, AI and underpaid Jeets.
The four horsemen of instability and inevitable collapse
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I haven't seen AWS yet (IIRC). How sucky is it?
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Not as sucky compared to Cuckflare. But can still pull off some fucky kikery here and there with the right amount of moolah
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It also doesn't work if you spoof your UserAgent, and occasionally have WASM disabled on any given site when it asks you to verify.
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You don't see it. Amazon Web Services is the big monopoly cloud host that everyone pretends is anything other than a gigantic, malevolent money sink. Sometimes it goes down and takes half the internet with it, because they're all hosted on aws or someone reselling aws.
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This started happening to me a lot after I started using browser extensions that spoof tracking/fingerprinting data. A lot of websites became inaccessible.
The solution: I don't visit those websites anymore.
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Back in the day in the USA, there were only 3 TV networks (at least national anyway) -- ABC, CBS, and NBC.
One day soon, the
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It's actually extremely simple why. All you have to do is look at blogposts about it. They will literally tell you about it. They just mistake you for a bot because all bots do that.
In my opinion, it's much simpler to just seperate your activity into "official" and anon/pseudonymous. If you're visiting a website you want to be anonymous on, use anonymity-preserving means in doing so. If you're doing Chase Online Banking or X dot com there's no point in i.e. using a VPN, you're probably actively harming yourself rather because you're associating your name with the VPN address/privacy-enhanced-browser/whatever that you use for anonymous things. You can of course be worried about i.e. getting profiled based on your search history or whatever (i.e. reading articles from XYZ news outlet, watching ABC video on youtube etc) but realistically 99% of people are much more tracable through their credit card purchases that they literally sign with their name and address and then that data is sold to everyone, so while I agree in spirit, I'd say for 99.9999% of people there's bigger things to tackle.
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how to graph the enshittification of the 'net:
graph Y=X^2 (or Y=X^X) on graphing calculator?
graph Y=X^2 (or Y=X^X) on graphing calculator?
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You can occasionally get around it by deleting cookies for the website. I've had said websites become inaccessible to me and I've narrowed it down to one of two scenarios that can happen to you: The Cloudflare verification box never appears which means Cloudflare is refusing to serve up the captcha to you and this happens when you spoof your UserAgent, or when the verification box gets stuck in an endless loop or you click on it and it just sends you back to another verification screen, which means you have to enable WASM on the website you're trying to verify for.
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I'm way ahead of you. I conduct my official activity in the real world, and my anonymous/pseudonymous activity on the internet.