Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone (blog.cloudflare.com)
from simple@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.ml on 07 Oct 2023 11:17
https://lemm.ee/post/10659302

I’ve actually noticed this in some websites the past ~two months. It’s neat to have a captcha that finally doesn’t need slowly clicking images to pass through.

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ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml on 07 Oct 2023 11:23 next collapse

Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement

Damn I didn’t know that was being tracked too

Maven@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Oct 2023 11:31 collapse

Have you ever clicked a captcha and it’s just checked itself off for you?

That’s because your page use behaviour looked human enough it wasn’t worth the robot test

ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml on 07 Oct 2023 11:41 collapse

It has happened on rare occasions. Most of the time, no. But I didn’t think they had access to the mouse cursor trajectory.

stealthnerd@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2023 13:09 collapse

Yes your browser tracks all of this, movement, hover, clicks etc. It’s how pages are able to respond to various mouse gestures.

iso@lemy.lol on 07 Oct 2023 11:30 next collapse

But how it works? I don’t see any explanation on the post nor CF web site. It looks magical.

30mag@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2023 11:37 collapse

For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.

nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Oct 2023 12:28 next collapse

But…. Lots of bots are made with RPAs …. With actual browsers , interface emulating human interaction. Sounds like a response to proton.me/blog/proton-captcha

[deleted] on 07 Oct 2023 13:43 next collapse

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flumph@programming.dev on 07 Oct 2023 16:01 next collapse

Turnstile was announced over a year ago.

30mag@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2023 16:04 collapse

I don’t know shit about it.

iso@lemy.lol on 07 Oct 2023 12:30 collapse

Thank you. I didn’t see this part. I guess its kind of like their privacy pass stuff.

redcalcium@lemmy.institute on 07 Oct 2023 11:43 next collapse

Second, we find that a few privacy-focused users often ask their browsers to go beyond standard practices to preserve their anonymity. This includes changing their user-agent (something bots will do to evade detection as well), and preventing third-party scripts from executing entirely. Issues caused by this behavior can now be displayed clearly in a Turnstile widget, so those users can immediately understand the issue and make a conscientious choice about whether they want to allow their browser to pass a challenge.

Those of you that browse the internet with JS disabled (e.g. using NoScript), the time of reckoning has finally come. A huge swatch of internet will no longer be accessible without enabling javascript.

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 2023 12:40 next collapse

Mull with RethinkDNS on mobile, ‘cool, so the internet just became less accessible’.

red@sopuli.xyz on 08 Oct 2023 11:25 collapse

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sik0fewl@kbin.social on 07 Oct 2023 13:23 next collapse

Ya, I feel like disabling Javascript should not be "beyond standard practice".

red@sopuli.xyz on 07 Oct 2023 17:29 collapse

As a web developer who’s worked in the industry for 16 years, every snowflake requiring me to work harder to support their “choices” is just an annoyance. I get wanting to reduce tracking etc, but in all honesty, the 0.0X% of users running tons of blockers and JS off are in reality just easier to track, in comparison to hiding in the mass of regular users who might be running an ad blocker (or nothing).

As long as your browser is making requests, you’ll never be invisible.

The change needs to come from regulation level imho.

LufyCZ@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2023 17:55 collapse

Couldn’t agree more.

It’s great you can do it and you’re free to, but not using javascript often means revamping the whole codebase and making everything 5x more complicated.

Which just won’t happen to make 6 users happy

red@sopuli.xyz on 07 Oct 2023 18:09 collapse

Amen. We do provide text versions though, but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

DarkenLM@kbin.social on 07 Oct 2023 20:56 collapse

but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

Well no shit, have they ever wondered why the language was created in the first place?

red@sopuli.xyz on 08 Oct 2023 08:12 collapse

It’s a god damn funny though.

jsdz@lemmy.ml on 07 Oct 2023 11:52 next collapse

I just tested my favourite cloudflare-blocked site and it still hangs on “verifying the security of your connection” in my figerprinting-resistant browser profile.

library_napper@monyet.cc on 08 Oct 2023 00:46 collapse

Yeah I get infinite loops on half the Internet. It’s infuriating and should be illegal for them to deny my as a customer just because they can’t track me

stifle867@programming.dev on 07 Oct 2023 15:03 next collapse

How does any of this fit into the reality that you can pay $1 per 1000 captchas for a real, actual human to solve them? It seems like so much effort is put into this cat&mouse narrative with bot makers, ignoring the reality that sometimes labour is actually much cheaper.

LufyCZ@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2023 17:53 next collapse

It’s about creating at least a small barrier for not-very motivated people.

If a script kiddie wants to create a couple accounts and spam a bit, paying for and integrating such a service might just discourage them from actually taking the time.

Just a small cost if you’re dedicated though, for sure

hedgehog@ttrpg.network on 07 Oct 2023 22:37 collapse

Given that it gets rid of captchas, it neatly evades that issue.

Their goal wasn’t to improve bot blocking, though, but to deter real people less and bots just as much, and it seems they’ve achieved that.

makeasnek@lemmy.ml on 08 Oct 2023 07:51 collapse

Cloudflare MITMs a good portion of internet traffic. They can even see inside SSL tunnels for most websites you visit. It’s an absolute privacy nightmare.