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New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fi...
That's an interesting thought: If Cloudflare didn't exclusively use Google to determine if you're a human, I wouldn't mind them nearly as much.
techslave
on Feb 3, 2020
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they don’t. they also have their own cloudflare “token” thing. can’t remember the name of it right now.
found it: privacy pass
loeg
on Feb 3, 2020
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Being asked to install arbitrary code to run in browser extension privileged context is perhaps one of the only things they could have done worse than google's captcha.
tony101
on Feb 3, 2020
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For what it's worth, the extension is open source:
https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension
AstralStorm
on Feb 3, 2020
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And does not work almost always.
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