Question: searching and browser randomly injecting Cloudflare etc. "checks" (self.privacy)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by birdwing to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Has this occurred to y'all? My browser as of lately suddenly checks. Even if I just search on "remove trackers" and a lot of normal links, I get the note "we nEed to VEriFY yOURE not a ROBOT"... it feels like Cloudflare et al are trying to force man in the middle attacks on you. And this also occurs on other browsers with other kinds of ""verifiers"".

The web's becoming cancerous. I hate this.

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[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they're a plague.

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026

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