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Comment by mschuster91

3 years ago

> profiling users based on other traits, and essentially determining if they are using "approved" software, is a dystopia we should fight strongly against. Stallman's Right To Read comes to mind as a very relevant warning story.

Right to Read indeed... fanfiction.net has over the last months become really annoying. Especially at night, when you have the FFN UI set to dark, and then out of nothing a bright white Cloudflare page appears. Or why the Cloudflare "anti bot" protection leads to an endless loop when the browser is the Android web view inside a third-party Reddit client.