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ByQuyzzy
811 days ago
I mean what I say. There is no reason for Cloudflare's browser checks outside of their desire to de-anonymize Tor users.
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gruez
811 days ago
The checks are to make sure you're using an actual browser and not some sort of automated program like curl to make 100k requests.
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ByQuyzzy
811 days ago
Nah they’re to individually identify your unique computer.
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gruez
810 days ago
Source? Here's mine:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha
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ByQuyzzy
809 days ago
I don't play the sauce game with reputation managers. And they haven't ended captcha.
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throwaway48476
810 days ago
Tor is notoriously slow and bandwidth limited. That's not the reason.
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gruez
810 days ago
5Tbps of botnet bandwidth isn't the only way to do a DDoS attack. L7 attacks can be pulled off with far less bandwidth.
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