I have embedded a link into the title where a person is frustrated with Cloudflare.
I’m interested in knowing the extent of their telemetry and data collection. The user alleges that Cloudflare collects cookies from visitors when one visits a website using their proxy + CDN?
Just to be transparent: I’m not looking to use Cloudflare, I’m going to use my own setup with a VPS, however it is important to know about such technologies, especially since I work in IT.
https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Seems the attitude against it is “I just don’t like it”.
If someone keeps getting the captcha interstitial, it’s probably because they’ve configured their browser to turn off things like JavaScript and cookies. This makes them different from a regular user, and can either break a site due to missing requirements, or makes them look like a bot, which Cloudflare will block.
(Most) Bots don’t do JavaScript — because that’d require an entire new engine on the client end, which consumes some resources; resources that they’d rather use to do more bottling. By turning off cookies and JavaScript, the “privacy conscious” user is making themselves look like bots. Vast majority of site operators doesn’t want bots, so they employ mechanisms to detect bots to prevent bots from accessing their site… so if users make themselves look like bots, and operators don’t want bots, then the users must be prepared to deal with the repercussions of their actions (of disabling JS and cookies).