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by kunwon1 594 days ago
I had tons of issues with these Cloudflare checkboxes. I finally figured out it was because I use this extension [1] that disables HTML5 autoplay. I assume Cloudflare is doing some kind of thing where they verify that the client can playback media, as they assume that headless browsers or crawlers won't have that capability

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...

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which is hilarious because I bypass all cloudflare turnstiles with 20 lines of python and 2captcha API.

It only defeats users.

These mainly exist to push responsibility to somebody else. Proper functionality is secondary.