Internet is no longer accessible?

14•cute_boi•58m ago

- There are tons of CAPTCHAs, and many of them are impossible to solve even with real chrome and no adblock extension. - Every website is asking for 2FA, and I get logged out every time. - MFA codes sent to my phone do not seem to work properly. - Registering a new Google account requires a phone number, and I also need to install app to prove i am not a bot. - Websites are asking me to rotate my head and grant microphone access. - Website blocks copy paste, so you have to manually type everything .... - Banking application will force you to update even if it isn't security related. - Everyone assumes you are bot.

Comments

ericmay•54m ago

> Banking application will force you to update even if it isn't security related.

This is fine. Not sure how that’s related to the rest of your post.

But for the rest of your post I agree with what you wrote. If a website is even vaguely annoying I just stop visiting. It seems like product managers forgot that friction is an issue. I can’t even access my ISP’s own website and get blocked by Cloudflare.

jruohonen•46m ago

> Cloudflare

Recently I noticed that many have broken their RSS feeds too by putting the feeds behind this CDN too.

benoau•54m ago

I worry about what would happen if CloudFlare decided I was an adversary, a massive amount of the internet would become completely inaccessible if I couldn't get past their annoying gateway!

JKCalhoun•10m ago

I'm increasingly okay with that.

Like mom turning off the TV because I should be out running around.

gregdaniels421•29m ago

It is part of what seems like a loosely coordinated effort to get verified platforms to be standard. Like device attestation so we can be more easily surveilled.

One odd thing with cloudflare is most sites are fine, and I click the box, but for some reason I go to some sites and they claim I have been blocked for bot like activity, which seems weird since it should be the same filter from the same provider.

trickypr•9m ago

Cloudflare isn’t just as simple as “bot” or “not a bot”. They give customers categories of how likely a request is to be automated (or a number for some enterprise plans)[1] and the customer decides what happens to your request (nothing, challenge, block, run a worker, etc).

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/#b...

Claude's code comments – too much or just enough?

CharaLab

Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading

Playing with Playbook; the scheduling app for astronauts (2015)

Show HN: SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve GitHub and Discord issues

Show HN: Coast – Turn an iPhone into a control surface for a Mac

Ask HN: What apps are you building?

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

An Uncomplicated Man

Zureka: A way forward to solving the thorniest issues in quantum mechanics

Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Review: Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' (2016)

Fundraiser to Bolster Monero's Security Through Automated Testing

Venture Mindset

Show HN: Edge Drop – The clipboard manager Windows 11 should have shipped with

Vakonomic Fluids

Gemini Distillation Service

Show HN: Gemma 4 26B A4B running on an iPhone 17 Pro via model paging

China Begins Making Homegrown DUV Lithography Chipmaking Tools

Trusty Boot Key, a Ventoy Alternative

Private Credit Backstop, How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers [pdf]

Internet is no longer accessible?

The Forensic Audit of Project 545

Families in London temporary housing told they cant use inbuilt air conditioning

Norway Salmon

Tlbic: A Local Basic Income Proposal Built to Protect Human Dignity (v9.0)

Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away

Internet is no longer accessible?

Comments

Claude's code comments – too much or just enough?

CharaLab

Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading

Playing with Playbook; the scheduling app for astronauts (2015)

Show HN: SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve GitHub and Discord issues

Show HN: Coast – Turn an iPhone into a control surface for a Mac

Ask HN: What apps are you building?

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

An Uncomplicated Man

Zureka: A way forward to solving the thorniest issues in quantum mechanics

Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Review: Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' (2016)

Fundraiser to Bolster Monero's Security Through Automated Testing

Venture Mindset

Show HN: Edge Drop – The clipboard manager Windows 11 should have shipped with

Vakonomic Fluids

Gemini Distillation Service

Show HN: Gemma 4 26B A4B running on an iPhone 17 Pro via model paging

China Begins Making Homegrown DUV Lithography Chipmaking Tools

Trusty Boot Key, a Ventoy Alternative

Private Credit Backstop, How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers [pdf]

Internet is no longer accessible?

The Forensic Audit of Project 545

Families in London temporary housing told they cant use inbuilt air conditioning

Norway Salmon

Tlbic: A Local Basic Income Proposal Built to Protect Human Dignity (v9.0)

Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away