• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    It’s important to note that Cloudflare offers paid bot-blocking services.

    I don’t doubt that a large amount of internet traffic is bot traffic, but CF’s CEO is not telling us this because they’re disappointed and outraged and want a change, they telling us this because they want to sell CDN + visitor filtering subscriptions.

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    5 months ago

    I wonder how Cloudflare estimates the increased rate of false positives they’re getting after they made their bot detector even more oversensitive in recent weeks. It no longer likes my default javascript-enabled browser profile and I don’t always bother to load another one when I get cloudflared, so >50% of visits from me are “bots”.

    • Segab 👻@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      Doesn’t CloudFlare also have a vested interest in saying bot traffic has overtaken humans to encourage website owners to their services?