this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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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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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Type in credentials and click "are you human" then I get "pick all objects that fit in a basket" after that it's "please enter the code we just sent"

[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cloudflare turnstile is just a checkbox, no “pick objects” tests

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that new? Because I have had to pick many objects when browsing cloudflare protected sites in the past with a VPN.

[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure, i haven’t seen it ever and I use a VPN on everything, Pi Hole at home, along with uBlock Origin and JShelter in Firefox on desktop, never been prompted with anything other than “click here”.

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