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by Hackbraten 1 hour ago
Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder.

Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.

3 comments

First you spread the disease, then you sell the cure.
I had similar thoughts: "let's convince everyone to outsource the decision on who can access their websites to us, because BOTS BOTS BOTS" and "let's make life easier for bots to do things".
But think of the shareholders
Anyone can be a shareholder.
Said the rich swe, fully oblivious of many who struggle to feed their own children.
That's unnecessarily presumptuous.