Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.
Cloudflare can read and even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.
Cloudflare has become a privacy problem approaching that of Google. I would be happy to see the web collectively abandon its services, in favour of many smaller providers.
A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny.
Which times, specifically?
More importantly, it looks like Gamers Nexus (no apostrophe) is crowdfunding the deeper investigation that they want to do.
I’m inclined to think contributing to this journalism would be worthwhile.
Why Deno?
Deno is sandboxed by default and does not allow filesystem or network access.
I’m glad to see they’re using the safety-focused option by default.
Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.
DSL is just as capable of this as fiber optic. As long as both ends of the connection have power, your comms are fine, as you noticed in the early days.
My guess is that your more recent DSL service relied on a loop extender located near enough to your home that it was affected by local power outages.
It’s always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren’t strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them. (Let’s also remember that fans containing magnets are often placed near hard drives.)
If you’re concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a cut-down paper towel spool. The graphics card’s weight will probably hold it in place.
In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives occasionally corrupt data and eventually die even when no magnets are around.
With views like that you probably support AI too.
Or I probably smell bad. Or I am probably a monster. Or I probably do whatever else you can imagine that might sway community opinion against me for contradicting you.
Once again, you are wrong. In both senses of the word.
I suggest learning what words mean before you go round using them in public, especially in accusations. It might help you to avoid embarrassing yourself. And, if arguing with people is what makes you happy, consider learning to avoid informal fallacies while you’re at it.
It’s theft. You are stealing from artists.
No, duplication is not theft. Reproducing is not stealing. Not in the dictionary sense. Not in the legal sense. Not in any sense at all.
It might be copyright infringement, inappropriate, and/or rude, depending on the particulars and the jurisdiction. But your claim that it is theft demonstrates that you either have no idea what you’re talking about, or you are deliberately misleading people.
Please stop.
I think they know this, and were aiming to exploit that initialism by associating its negative connotations with the totally unrelated thing that they don’t like.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250714145528/https://www.404media.co/deportation-tok-is-taking-off-2/
Thank you, Internet Archive.
(I hope people who can afford to will send money to 404 Media and the Internet Archive. I think both deserve it.)
I wonder if a personalized reputation system based on your votes of other people’s comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook.
Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages, and with each user keeping (and seeing) their own rankings of everyone else.
Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML <meta> tag to refresh a page.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/http-equiv
Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.
Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. Their CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.
How do you know this?
Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.
What about https://ghostarchive.org/?
I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall when trying to submit an article, but not when searching for an archived article. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.
She told me she’s […] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It’s really disappointing to find sites that were formerly readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.
Unfortunately, archive.is seems to have moved behind a big corporate CAPTCHA service, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
I suggest this archive link instead:
The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.