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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Google Cache finally gone
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 13:10 this Wednesday (GMT):
> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Damn, I've been using it more and more as JS-walls have become more
>>>> frequent and prevent me reading pages in lightweight web browsers
>>>> without JS support. In fact it's about the only thing I use Google
>>>> for!
>>> 
>>> This one works pretty well for /most/ paywalls: https://archive.is/
>> 
>> Thanks, yes that has the article. It wasn't actually behind a
>> paywall, but using one of these cache services like Cloudflare that
>> can block access from browsers without Javascript saying something
>> like "Enable Javascript and cookies to continue". I thought
>> "JS-wall" was a good term for it since the effect is like a paywal,
>> only they demand you run their JS rather than demand payment.
>
> Ah, those.  The term you are searching for is "capatcha" [1], at least 
> in the 'cloudfare' case.  They are, supposedly, to prevent bots from 
> scraping/DDOSing the site.  However, an awful lot of sites add them 
> either because they decide to "go cloudfare" (in a belief they are big 
> and popular enough to justify such) or simply because the web devs are 
> idiots that just "follow the herd" and because they see caapatcha's 
> else where, they add one here.
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA


Cloudflare captchas are very annoying, it completely broke a webscraping
script I used :(
Also I want to use NoScript 
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