Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!

On 2026-08-16, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:47:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>
>> WHO told them to do this ???
>> 
>> No, I'm NOT gonna comply.
>> 
>> If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
>> quit.
>> 
>> Evil !
>
> So a 2 second CAPTCHA 3 a website uses to protect against malicious 
> attacks ruins your entire day? 
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#DDoS_mitigation
>
> I hate to tell you but I think your world is going to shrink. I didn't hit 
> the verification with Brave on two different machines. I think that's 
> because I'd been there before and they'd dropped a cookie.

If it is Cloudflare it is guaranteed to ruin some days. Cloudflare
doesn't support other than a few select browsers, at a few select
version ranges. Unless the site owner configures it to somehow let other
browsers bypass the "browser check"(*), you'll be left out of it even
with JS enabled. Anubis tends to be much better in this regard.

(*) Formerly "Browser Integrity Check" with proper fallbacks in place,
    at least when Cloudflare's team didn't forget these were fallbacks
    and shouldn't all require some newer feature like the Origin: header
    being set, which is how they tried to make a self-DDoS in the past.

>  OMG cookies!

Omnomnomnomnom :-P

-- 
Nuno Silva