[rurp]

Cloudflare has been even worse for me on Linux + Firefox. On a number of sites I get the "Verify" challenge and after solving it immediately get a message saying "You have been blocked" every time. Clearing cookies, disabling UBO, and other changes make no difference. Reporting the issue to them does nothing.

This hostility to normal browsing behavior makes me extremely reluctant to ever use Cloudflare on any projects.

[a_imho]

I'm a Cloudflare customer, even their own dashboard does not work with linux+slightly older firefox. I mean one click and it is ooops, please report the error to dev null

[mmh0000]

At least you can get past the challenge. For me, every-single-time it is an endless loop of "select all bikes/cars/trains". I've given up even trying to solve the challenge anymore and just close the page when it shows up.

[theamk]

that's not Cloudflare, they stopped doing pictures years ago. You can tell because Cloudflare always puths their brand name on their page.

Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays.

[jcelerier]

> Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays.

looks like someone is due for a class action

[trinix912]

It is Cloudflare, I see it too. It's a Cloudflare page, with all branding, the spinning circle, then a captcha pops up on the same Cloudflare-branded page.

[theamk]

Interesting! Do you have have a URL I could look at?

[Springtime]

I run a few Linux desktop VMs and Cloudflare's Turnstile verification (their auto/non-input based verification) fails for the couple sites I've tried that use it for logins, on latest Chromium and Firefox browsers. Doesn't matter that I'm even connecting from the same IP.

I'd presumed it was just the VM they're heuristically detecting but sounds like some are experiencing issues on Linux in general.

[abirch]

I guess it’s time to update our user agent strings like I did with konquerer 20 years ago.

Looks like there’s a plugin for that https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher...

[nbernard]

Check that you are allowing webworker scripts, that did the trick for me. I still have issues on slower computers (Raspberry pies and the like) as they seem to be to slow to do whatever Cloudflare wants as a verification in the allotted time, however.

[ponector]

Sounds like my experience browsing internet while connected to the VPN provided by my employer: tons of captcha and everything is defaulted to German (IP is from Frankfurt).

[ranger_danger]

The problem is that you are not performing "normal browsing behavior". The vast majority of the population (at least ~70% don't use ad-blockers) have no extensions and change no settings, so they are 100% fingerprintable every time, which lets them through immediately.

[globalnode]

linux + firefox. not sure what happened to me yesterday but the challange/response thing was borked and when i finally got through it all, it said i was a robot anyway. this was while trying to sign up for a skype acct, could have been a ms issue though and not necessarily cloudflare. i think the solution is to just not use obstructive software. thanks to this issue i discovered jitsi and that seems more than enough for my purposes.

[sleepybrett]

Yeah, Lego and Etsy are two sites I can now only visit with safari. It sucks. Firefox on the same machine it claims I'm a bot or a crawler. (not even on linux, on a mac)

[neodymiumphish]

Does it still apply if you change the UA to something more common (Chrome on Windows or something)?

[beepbooptheory]

Fwiw, I was getting cloudflare blocked for a long time on Firefox+Linux and the only thing that fixed it was completely disabling the UA adjuster browser extension I had installed.

[lta]

Yeah, same here. I've avoided it for a most of my customers for that very reason already