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by 63stack 479 days ago
Another uphill struggle is cloudflare. Get ready for sites being unavailable because of CF, and endless captchas that make you wonder if they even work.
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This would be an excellent opportunity for CF to assert a commitment to a secure and private web by propping up one of the FF forks, even a little bit, and simply make sure it's not auto-killed by their managed policies.

Obviously if a customer wants to manually kill it, it's on them, but CF has a lot of power in choosing defaults.

As someone who cares about privacy, knowing that the company that MITMs a massive chunk of my TLS traffic to websites also controls my browser's funding would make me feel uneasy.
I've been using LibreWolf for about a year, and I have not experienced endless / non-functional captchas.

As far I know this is because LibreWolf pretends to be Firefox. Looking in the devtools confirms that Librewolf is sending a firefox UA.

My experience is that anything that tries to tamper with the UA will send CF into a frenzy.

My regular firefox instance is pretty much okay. Unfortunately there is a bunch of super popular crapware shit like Teams and Slack that refuses to properly work on Firefox, unless you tweak the UA. The last time I had to do this was about half a year ago, but Slack refused to let me "huddle", unless I changed my UA. Same with Teams, it straight up said I need to install chrome if I want video chat.

Any time I forgot to change back my UA, CF would not let me in anywhere. I got the captcha, clicked on it, it said "all good", reloaded the page, and I got redirected back to the captcha. Endless loop.

Just curious, what kind of changes or tweaks do you typically make to your UA and why?
I just gave two examples above.
You gave examples of when you change your UA, but didn't actually say what change you make. Are you changing it to match a Google Chrome UA, or what?
Yeah, I change it to the Chrome UA