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Comment by nicolaslem

3 months ago

I got a Cloudflare captcha to access a few kb of plain text. Chances are, the captcha itself is heavier than the content behind it. What is the point?

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nicolaslem

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layer8  3 months ago

The point is to have Cloudflare serve the few KB of cached content instead of the original server.

  • magackame  3 months ago

    You can have just caching without bot protection

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