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1. kayode+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-06-15 12:41:12
Cloudflare uses captchas for proving you’re not a bot under certain circumstances. Like when someone from your IP trips DDoS protection.

Google does the same to block scrapping of search results.

replies(3): >>stjohn+aG >>easrng+RY2 >>Reason+lQ3
2. stjohn+aG[view] [source] 2022-06-15 15:43:13
>>kayode+(OP)
Don't they only do that if you've clicked the box for it though? I don't blame this on cloudflare any more than I would blame them for allowing open text ftp connections. This is on the websites who are the end point.
3. easrng+RY2[view] [source] 2022-06-16 08:02:36
>>kayode+(OP)
Somewhat ironically Google doesn't use recaptcha on the Google Account signup page, it's some other internal captcha (the warped-text kinda).
4. Reason+lQ3[view] [source] 2022-06-16 15:04:27
>>kayode+(OP)
> "Google does the same to block scrapping of search results."

Google, of all companies, should be capable of coming up with a better way to detect and prevent web scraping. Broadly-targeted CAPTCHAs are extremely lazy.

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