[Velocifyer]

I couldn't read this article because Science.org left Bot Fight Mode or Super Bot Fight Mode enabled in their Cloudflare settings, causing me to be blocked by a “security verification”. If you use Cloudflare, disable bot stop modes by going to dash.cloudflare.com and selecting your domain and then clicking on “Security” and then clicking on “Settings” and then using the buttons to disable Bot Fight Mode or Super Bot Fight Mode.

[dlcarrier]

My experience with dead internet theory isn't that bots are making the internet unusable, it's that anti-bot measures are making the internet unusable. It's like antivirus software, all over again, except this time I don't get choose whether or not to run it.

[himata4113]

I was going to give an archive.is link, but they're blocked too.

[Velocifyer]

Archive.is is malware. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

[HDBaseT]

Do you know what sort of browser configuration triggers the Bot Flight Mode detection?

I'm not using anything too esoteric (Firefox Developer Edition, highly tweaked + extensions).

[TiredOfLife]

In 99% of cases it's auto deletion of cookies.