Cloudflare and other annoyances თემის ავტორი: Philip Lees
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Philip Lees 
საბერძნეთი
Local time: 02:51
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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
| | | | Gregor Trebec
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Local time: 01:51
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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
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Local time: 01:51
ინგლისური -> გერმანული
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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:
| | | | Philip Lees
საბერძნეთი
Local time: 02:51
ბერძნული -> ინგლისური
თემის ავტორი
Zea_Mays wrote:
ProZ has definitively an implementation issue with the service - other sites using that bot watchdog work properly. So this can be easily managed IMO:
I've found that Cloudflare is uniformly slow enough to be annoying, even if it's just a checkbox and doesn't require the identification of cats or trams. On some sites, you even have to go through it twice. I use the tinyurl link shortener quite regularly, and sometimes you get the regular Cloudflare check page before you even get to the site, then you get a second check before you can shorten the URL.
I can understand the second part of that, as they don't want bots using up their bandwidth and processing time, but not the first.
But the ProZ implementation is certainly one of the worst.
In fact, it just did it again! When I went to preview this reply, I suddenly found myself confronted with the Cloudflare check. At least this time it didn't redirect me arbitrarily. On one similar occasion, after passing the humanity test I found myself on the home page, my carefully crafted message having been irretrievable lost.
These days, I always press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C before clicking on 'Preview'.
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| I always copy my post | Jul 17 |
Philip Lees wrote:
These days, I always press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C before clicking on 'Preview'.
I started doing this for my posts on Proz, long time before they added Cloudflare.
Are you using a VPN to change your location? E.g. to New York? Perhaps that helps?
Edit: To answer my own question: no this doesn't help.
[Edited at 2026-07-17 07:17 GMT]
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