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Cloudflare and other annoyances
Thread poster: Philip Lees
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Greece
Local time: 06:44
Greek to English
Jul 16

Once again I was blocked by Cloudflare before I could log in to this site today. That's the third time this week.

Though I'm just an ordinary pleb,
No "influencer" or celeb,
The day that I cannot
Show I'm not a robot
Means Cloudflare is killing the web

I've also instituted a new personal filter for websites. Any web page that forces me to specify my cookie and other preferences before I can see any content, and doesn't offer me the option of reje... See more
Once again I was blocked by Cloudflare before I could log in to this site today. That's the third time this week.

Though I'm just an ordinary pleb,
No "influencer" or celeb,
The day that I cannot
Show I'm not a robot
Means Cloudflare is killing the web

I've also instituted a new personal filter for websites. Any web page that forces me to specify my cookie and other preferences before I can see any content, and doesn't offer me the option of rejecting all (including the sneakily named "legitimate interest") with a single click, gets closed immediately, and I look for my information elsewhere.

Is this just me? Or is the internet getting progressively more annoying? ▲ Collapse


WolfgangS
Zea_Mays
Renée van Bijsterveld
Jennifer Levey
Maria Laura Curzi
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Gregor Trebec
Gregor Trebec
Slovenia
Local time: 05:44
English to Slovenian
+ ...
yes Jul 16

Yes, yesterday Cloudflare gave me problems too. It wouldn't let me in. Than i reached Proz from random job notification in my gmail. Problem solved.
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 05:44
English to German
+ ...
I'm lucky... Jul 16

I "only" have to wait for minutes to be granted access by Cloudflare each and every day. And I have to be on that very browser tab while the tool spins, otherwise the process takes ages.
ProZ has definitively an implementation issue with the service - other sites using that bot watchdog work properly. So this can be easily managed IMO:

Maria Laura Curzi
 


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