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by superkuh 940 days ago
I'm a human and I can't get past cloudflare "bot mitigation" with my browser. Bot mitigation actually just means your browser executing the latest bleeding edge javascript functions to make sure your behavior is monetizable.
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No that's not actually true at all. The website always worked with text-only browsers, cloudflare or not. Thoroughly tested with the likes of w3m and dillo.

Virtually all of the traffic that was intercepted claimed to be modern Chrome or Safari or similar, which should be capable of "executing the latest bleeding edge javascript functions".

The primary reason why anyone gets shit from bot mitigation is IP reputation, this is far more important (and effective) than looking at browser characteristics.