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Exhausted with CloudFlare Turnstile becoming the front door of every website (www.cloudflare.com)
submitted 2 months ago by plz1@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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I think this community is appropriate for this topic, since this solution is being rolled out to combat AI scraping of websites.

I don't really understand why the collective agreement is "it is better than captchas would be", when you didn't need to pass a captcha just to view a website in the first place. Why are people not more pissed off about every website suddenly requiring this laggy, sometimes actually a captcha anyways (checkbox to prove you are human) solution slowing down visits to websites?

And why can't CloudFlare offer some way for us lowly non-AI's to prove we're human, once, for our entire web experience, versus on. every. damned. website. one. at. a. time?

I counted, and I hit this turnstile solution on 28 website visits today, and sometimes more than once on the same site. That's minutes of my life I don't get back, and likely hours to days over the course of a year.

There has to be a better way...

/rant

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[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is becoming more prevalent because of AI bots, Cloudflares services anre actually one of the good guys with tools against bots.

People’s internet bandwidth has multiplied like crazy with all the AI companies stealing everything that goes online, and things like the turnstile do work to reduce that so people can still afford bandwidth.

This is the Dead Internet theory coming true. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-bandwidth-surges-50/