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by ranger_danger 24 days ago
> Cloudflare's scraping protection works about as well as a $5 padlock

It sure seems to keep me, the casual visitor, far away from just about any site they "protect". I have zero desire to alter my browsing configuration or use extra tools to get around turnstile, I'd rather not even visit the site in the first place.

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>, I'd rather not even visit the site in the first place

Until your bank, airline, and tax ministry start using them.

Even more reason to boycott sites using it now.
I vote with my wallet and dump misbehaving banks.
Overwhelming majority of customers doesn't even know they can care. And most of them wouldn't anyway. So your vote doesn't matter to anyone but you, sadly.
"Misbehaving" by protecting themselves