Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Google Cache finally gone Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:40:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <66f33b70@news.ausics.net> <66f3af5e@news.ausics.net> Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fb76d55e086b346deefe6b1ca9fba3d4"; logging-data="3897136"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18rMir26esjnLPaUfFdartpOzwBVuNH3Q0TRP5GPuQRXQ==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:71PbaLrNepKcw5ASCia7o7A3110= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 13:10 this Wednesday (GMT): > Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Rich wrote: >>> Computer Nerd Kev 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 -- user is generated from /dev/urandom