njsg yeah

njsg: s/.pt/.ve/

basically the same crap here :)

you can reliably bitch about .ve on what appears to be a 24/7 basis, you have it a lot lot lot better than most of the .ve expats in .es ;)

we live in a constant "hold my beer" status, yes :D

:D

Anyway, nothing to report today on Day 17 on the Clownflare Siege...

no news is... good news?

no, no news is no news

clownflare hasn't pissed me off this week, yet

at least it doesn't vomit JS errors anymore on the dev console

it just shuts itself like a clam

"Update your browser!"

even the error message is misleading as hell

the entire error page is drawn via JS

it would be good if the company could at least have a communication channel for this

sure, you can always become a Business Customer™

...so you can get told to pound sand while they milk your Corporate Visa, yay~!

it's a shame that noone is doing public RE over Clownflare fingerprinting/blocking crap

other than the few notes I found at Ladybird's Github

(and if anyone is doing RE on its own, why would even bother publishing it? Might as well consider it weapons-grade assets and sell them to bot writers)

RE I wouldn't say, but debugging I've done it a couple times, but it gets more tiring and I still need to get back the VM setup that enabled me to do more of that testing

say, when I digged through HTTP interactions side-by-side in two inspectors to find their self-DDoS was caused by Origin:

oh pretty

the WSJ now serves captchas

then I solve the captcha and... I got blocked

let me guess: they hate my CGNAT too

their reasoning is bogus: "something has intrigued us about your browser behavior"

either I browse at a superhuman speed (wat), I'm tampering with JavaScript (wtf), or I house a robot in my same IP

wsj, no loss really. But the fact that sites should care about simple get requests are beyond stupid. Let me fetch the damn page. I could accept if post, put, patch, and delete would get elevated to some captcha check. But get requests should just get a pass.

Amazingly the WSJ captcha works fine on SeaMonkey - they haven't gone nuclear like Clownflare

but solving a captcha just to get the door slammed at your face is RUDE

not even *Google* goes that far

hiya nsITobin

i am gonna be banned from libra chat shortly

IanN_Away: so i am not having a good day

I can't be on this network anymore..

because I can't NOT walk away from being instantly challeged when I am being sincere .. and its escilated again elsewhere on libra

Not gonna bring it here.. don't worry..

sorry IanN_Away did you ping me for a reason I just rolled over?

nsITobin: the safe word for today is "Clownflare" :D

steamrolled whatever the termology is.. i am drained

damn, I now have another idea for the hat embroidery shop

they will embroider any logo you want for $2.50, and you can buy blank baseball caps for another $2.50 at a nearby shop

something like this: media.tsdx.net.ve/IMG_20250205_153621.jpg

so I'll order a "Clownflare" hat instead, and maybe do the orange hat in any other color, maybe red and white

Make Cloudflare Accessible Again.

tomman:

that's the hat

or rather.. Make Cloudflare Not Exist Again.

even better

tomman: any new developments or just persistance

I might be looking on switching hosting providers in the future

I recommend Afterburst

unmetered bandwith cheap prices leaves you alone.. semi-reasonable tos

a user of my website recently reported getting a (non-Clownflare) captcha, and found my provider uses some protection crap that they had told nothing about

also, Clownflare is an option that they already enforce to enter their customer service portal

I need something I can pay in local currency, preferably :/

can you use paypal?

I can use a international debit card, but should be a low amount as buying currency from the banks here is... hard

and the black market is expensive

And for other reasons I prefer to deal with a national provider

right

tomman: i figured it out

not really

but maybe

i dunno I will think about it some more

tomman: yeah afterburst does have credit card payments through stripe

nsITobin: I was just saying hi

ah ok.. How are you?

nsITobin: not too bad thanks and you?

aside from earlier.. fine over all.. bit drained.. gonna cook up a pork steak

nsITobin: sounds tasty

yeah people look down on the pork steak because it isn't a loin chop but you wanna subsist on something that is versitile and has enough fat to stand up to different kinds of cooking.. go pork steak or sholder roast

plus ever try grilling a pork loin chop? it is easier to grill chicken breast.. but a pork steak is BEST when grilled preferably over charcoal

nsITobin: I have some beef rump steak for tomorrow

awesome