Cloudflare-Pale Moon dialogue stalled by overly broad NDA & secrecy of broken JS (opens in new tab)

(forum.palemoon.org)

8 pointsmimasama1y ago3 comments

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Despite a long working relationship between Pale Moon and Cloudflare in the past, the latter refuses to disclose to the browser developers the 2 particular JavaScript functions and some CSP assumptions required by CF's browser check.

db48x1y ago

The only reasonable long–term strategy is for users to simply stop using any site which presents them with a captcha or other verification measure of any kind. Of course, 99% of users only care about how easy it is to get their fix and have never considered any of the long–term consequences, so it’s not reasonable for a browser to rely on their users adopting that behavior.

pornel1y ago

It's not that easy. Although some site owners enable protection without thinking about it, a lot of the time this is deliberate.

Site owners are increasingly concerned about AI crawlers taking their content without giving anything in return.

I'm afraid that this fight will only get more desperate as AI and AI agents start to replace more and more web browsing.

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