The web now consists mostly of Cloudflare verification pages and maybe occasional actual content
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@thomasfuchs
The internet's evolved into an elaborate CAPTCHA obstacle course with the occasional website hiding behind it 😄
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> mostly of Cloudflare verification pages
Mostly working and often not working Cloudflare verification pages, mind you!
@thomasfuchs I've thought about making a joke page that goes through multiple of those with no actual page at the end
like the cloudflare one, then the anubis one, then recaptcha, hcaptcha, etc
@thomasfuchs please prove you're not an AI before accessing our slop pages
@thomasfuchs absofuckinlutely hate Cloudflare. they should have never been made gatekeepers of the web. it feels like we got to this point because a whole generation of web developers were working without actual sysadmins to deal with all the ways DDoS happen on a server.
@thomasfuchs that's not true, don't forget about the south AI Slurry Sea, which is rising at a rate of several inches a year
@thomasfuchs the content is behind a paywall, but accessible over archive.is (which has the CloudFlare verification page)
@thomasfuchs By content you mean captcha pictures?
@thomasfuchs I guess if I was worried about being human then it's good I can get external validation twenty times a day
Are you sure? I'm still waiting to get verified so I can access actual content. If and when I do get verified, I'm not sure I can believe the content is "actual".
"Cloudflare automated public Turing test to tell computers and huskies apart"
@thomasfuchs so much for the internet being decentralised.
I guess it makes it easy to figure out if someone attacks the US because the whole of the internet probably won’t be working