I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual

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[–]SoCo[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is also doing a bunch of challenge request communications and funky use of cookies and webworkers.

Many of the requests and cookie uses seem to be purposely done incorrectly, such as with incorrect samesite header rules. They expressly state something to the effect of 'testing your browser's security', so I guess that would be their excuse. Yet, when a website makes certain bad requests, your browser is supposed react in certain ways, which may help leak or fingerprint your network, browser, and/or device.

Cloudflare is notoriously unfriendly towards Tor users. They are a fingerprinting identifying service at their core and Tor is an anonymity services. They are inherent mortal enemies, by my figuring.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They don't even let you use plain old Firefox. You pretty much have to use Chrome, and only Chrome, because only it has enough tracking functionality to satisfy CloudFlare.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can get through their security check it Librewolf, and that has more anti-fingerprinting than vanilla Firefox.