Comment by nicce
3 months ago
Unfortunately, Cloudflare and other protections will keep working even less than they used to. I have started to not use Cloudflare protected websites because they don’t work with Firefox. But that is a fight I am going to lose.
Symptoms? Is it limited to when a site has Cloudflare's more aggressive protection turned on? I haven't noticed any problems I've attributed to Cloudflare, and I use Firefox exclusively.
The only symptom is that captcha never completes.
I have more restrictive protections on. If you use just loose settings, it completes, but advanced fingerprint protection, for example, breaks captcha completion.
This is very known issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742606
This matches my experience as well. As a FF user, I very occasionally encounter problems, but these don't seem to be correlated to their using CF protections. Much more often I find sites broken that rely on cloud domains with bad reputations, which my DNS filters block.
I was actually wondering if the stuff that Mozilla's talking about here will be used by bad bot people to try to circumvent CF's abuse protections. As I recall from when I was working with them, CF's service relies in part on being able to identify botnet attacks by doing its own fingerprinting.
Cloudflare and their crappy widget has done a disservice to the Internet and humanity. They really do need to come up with something else.
I run exclusively Firefox over known mullvad VPN endpoints and I never have any issues with cloudflare or its captcha.
I guess you don’t have fingerprint resist on:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742606
I'm sorry whatever problem you've run into, but it's definitely not true that no cloudflare protected websites work with any Firefox. You've run into something more specific, I guess.