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Cloudflare's protection is quite a b*tch to circumvent with any headless or python library.


Slight aside: The most recent Cloudflare HCaptchas ask you to classify AI generated images. They don’t even look like a proper bike/truck/whatever (I don’t have an example handy).

I categorically refuse to do when I’m browsing websites using it. I find this new captcha utterly unacceptable.

It’s no “protection” at this point anymore. Websites are using it as an excuse to become even more user hostile. I am worried for the future of the web.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514998#28515629

> Cloudflare's bot protection mostly makes use of TLS fingerprinting, and thus pretty easy to bypass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251700 -> https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls

Disclaimer: haven't tried it.


It's a pain even when you aren't a bot. For a while there, Cloudflare's fingerprinting page would trigger Firefox on Linux to crash instantly.


with node, i've had success with puppeteer-extra using puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth




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