[petterroea]

"Your browser appears suspicious because it looks like you are trying to hide your identity"

Another case of the much predicted downfall of freedom due to "people who hide themselves must have something to hide, so they are automatically suspicious"

[jeroenhd]

This has nothing to do with identity and everything with bots and scrapers. Nobody but a handful of advertisers cares about the actual fingerprint of your browser, all they care about is letting through people and rejecting bots.

If tech companies weren't waging a war against public resources in an attempt to get their grubby little hands on every bit of data they can, we wouldn't be in this mess.

If there were a more reliable "I'm not a bot" signal and maybe some reliable method of rate limiting, we could do away with Turnstile and just let people through again. Unfortunately, every well-intended privacy measure is abused by AI's war against the public good.

[jesterson]

CF business model heavily relies on fearmongering, so what we can expect?

They send these emails you know? "CF saved you XXX Gb of data and protected your from YYY attacks". I have few high load web sites which I turned CF on for a while. Knowing my traffic pretty well, I can say these "CF saved you XXX Gb of data and protected your from YYY attacks" is absolute bullshit with numbers greatly exaggerated.

Since wwe can't catch them on this lie, they can put any number they like to make their "service" attrractive.

[kevincox]

I can only assume that every time I back out of these sites because I don't want to check the box or just don't want to wait a few seconds that is marketed to the site owner as a GREAT VICTORY as I am clearly a EVIL BOT that they have defended the site from.

[jesterson]

Be sure they multiply your number by 100 at least. I was getting numbers for "evil bots" way exceeding possible good and malicious traffic.

[petterroea]

They are probably counting every single http request rejection as an evil bot

[jesterson]

I did some math, and even if they would count every http pass through together with rejection traffic, their numbers would still be greatly exaggerated.