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Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 5:23 pm
by digdeeper
Seriously. I just visited like 12 video game review sites. All were Cloudflared, I could read nothing. I think it's a record for CFed sites in a row for me. Similar problem exists with tech sites.
To do any kind of reading these days, I need morty or archives and that's additional effort and often doesn't work anyway. There needs to be a better solution because almost the entire internet is now gated by CF. Don't believe this?
16% of all sites are behind CF, and the percentage shoots up for any actually used ones (42.3% for top 100000!). And I suspect the percentage will be even higher in terms of certain topics like tech or gaming.
What could be done? Maybe save a local archive of every CFed page you encounter, then upload. Massive undertaking though. An extension to do that automagically could be made, perhaps.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 6:24 pm
by qualia
Do you still use palemoon? over the weekend ill try to write an extension that redirects cuckflare and other mitms to archive.org versions of the site, i suppose i could try adding local archive functionality also
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 6:39 pm
by digdeeper
Yeah I do. If you managed that, it would be great.
My vision was that the local archives from various users could be combined and uploaded somewhere (like in a torrent, maybe). Then, the browser would automatically redirect CF sites to the local downloaded archives, if it found a matching one. Might be hard to code, but worth it IMO.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 7:36 pm
by lostuser
slop
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 8:01 pm
by qualia
lostuser wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2026 7:36 pm
In theory the best solution would be to DDoS or otherwise attack cloudflare's infrastructure until people stop using it. The feasibility of this is a whole other question. Or out of the question altogether, for, i assume, everybody here. Usually i just avoid CF'd sites, but this is probably one of their goals and what they want, control of information and censorship. Also doesnt prevent similar things from appearing, as has already occurred, even in the open source community.
That's stupid, the only reason soydevs willingly mitm their websites is because their services are genuinely the best (out of major commercial services)/at deflecting ddos attacks. Unless you're going to create the biggest botnet to ever exist (obviously infeasible) then the only thing to do is to boycott them by blocking their websites. The only hope is that they fuck up on their own and we've seen a couple of cf fuckups recently (are they vibe coding their software?). I guess it's not 100% hopeless but there's nothing a couple guys on a forum can do
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 8:32 pm
by lostuser
s l o p
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 11:08 pm
by qualia
qualia wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2026 6:24 pm
Do you still use palemoon? over the weekend ill try to write an extension that redirects cuckflare and other mitms to archive.org versions of the site, i suppose i could try adding local archive functionality also
hacked together the internet archive redirect in a few minutes. its late now so ill start actually trying to do the challenging part with the collaborative torrent archive thing tomorrow. if you want to test rename to xpi since phpbb doesnt recognise the filetype but theres pretty much no functionality except the redirect for now
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 11:37 pm
by Theundercoverman_
Seems like more and more websites are becoming Cloudflared. At this point I don't care anymore unless a site forces Cloudflare browser checks every time. Rateyourmusic is one of the worst offenders because they require a CF browser check every time and they still completely block you anyways for using Tor/VPN, and even if you connected to a VPN or Tor exit node that wasn't blocked, you'll be blocked after a few requests anyways.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 8:02 am
by jaxqntqe
It seems you missed adding Succuri and DDOSGuard to the list of honorable mentions.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 11:04 am
by thecrawler
There are several extensions in the deCloudflare repo, including for Palemoon.
https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare/-/t ... equests_pm
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 11:35 am
by digdeeper
Yeah that just blocks, which I'm already doing with a firewall.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 8:53 pm
by 12ax7
Cloudflare might be worth writing an entire article, like Mozilla.
As far as mitigations, I don't know. They even made a
way to protect against AI scrapers. What a waste of resources.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:00 am
by equilibria
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Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:54 am
by qualia
equilibria wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:00 am
Also Anubis. It's a terrible cancer spreading to the "small web", Ive been seeing this more and more often these days
What's the issue with anubis?
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:58 am
by equilibria
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Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 10:16 am
by moeloli
equilibria wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:58 am
You can't browse any such good old web sites with Tor/
I2P with cookies and JS disabled
What do you mean by I2P? Browsing clearweb sites through I2P using outproxies? As far as I know you're not "supposed" to do that.
qualia wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:54 am
What's the issue with anubis?
Aside from the technical problems that equilibria talked about (and that's what mainly matters), I also think it's lame and gay that they "enshittified"
(I think this word is kind of cringe) their mascot pictures with the excuse that the original pictures were AI-jewnerated... I'm not a fan of jewnerated slop, but I prefer it to un-cute BlueSky tranny western cartoon shit.
- anubis.jpg (178.15 KiB) Viewed 32448 times
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:04 pm
by 12ax7
qualia wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:54 am
equilibria wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:00 am
Also Anubis. It's a terrible cancer spreading to the "small web", Ive been seeing this more and more often these days
What's the issue with anubis?
It prevents search engine indexing with crawlers, though there is a
way to use it without javascript.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:46 am
by equilibria
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Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:50 am
by laki
I also think this is worth making an article on. I may start work on one myself, at some point.
Regarding qualia's extension, I wonder what other features we could add?
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:58 am
by digdeeper
laki wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:50 am
I also think this is worth making an article on. I may start work on one myself, at some point.
Regarding qualia's extension, I wonder what other features we could add?
The anti-CF repo has enough info on CF I think.
As for features, a template to notify the webdev that he's using CF and should stop (lol) in a similar manner to LibreJS (yeah totally going to work, but could be tried).
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 7:00 pm
by Theundercoverman_
digdeeper wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:58 am
laki wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:50 am
I also think this is worth making an article on. I may start work on one myself, at some point.
Regarding qualia's extension, I wonder what other features we could add?
The anti-CF repo has enough info on CF I think.
As for features, a template to notify the webdev that he's using CF and should stop (lol) in a similar manner to LibreJS (yeah totally going to work, but could be tried).
It does, but it kept getting taken down everywhere or retired so it's hard to link to, and I haven't read it in years so I don't know if it's still updated or not. But all of this could be added onto Mitigating malicious websites.
I tried the
method to check if sites were CF'd before, but an easier way would be typing
and checking the server header. Then again, not every site behind Cloudflare forces a browser check every time you access the site.
Re: Cloudflare and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 11:59 am
by y0t64af0b44