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Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.
1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services
2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
3. AI Content Policy
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Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries
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5. Only content in French and English is permitted
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1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens
2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.
3. Politique sur le contenu IA
Non permis : Images ou articles générés par l'IA
Toléré : Résumés IA de publications
4. Lors d'une discussion sur un produit canadien qui n'est pas disponible à l'échelle nationale, veuillez faire de votre mieux pour préciser où il peut être acheté
5. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré
6. Déclarez toute auto-promotion
Les utilisateurs sont encouragés à signaler tout contenu qui ne respecte pas nos directives communautaires
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Completely understand the sentiment! It's very annoying to get these.
As a website operator, I don't have a lot of defenses to bots crawling my site. As it stands, around 60% of my site traffic would be bots. I have to pay for data for this, as it's just a hobby.
You can bet damn well I'm using cloud flare's free tools to keep this unwanted traffic down, even if it annoys a few of my dozen users.
Anubis? Not sure how it compares from an operator standpoint but I've noticed more and more sites using it instead
Thanks for this, looks interesting! I'll research more.
That sucks as a user but it's necessary for the retailers because of fraud bots. If you're getting loads of these prompts then it's possible you have some malware running somewhere on your network which is causing more suspicion for your IP address.
Unfortunately due to AI scrapers and botnet spammers, bot filter mechanisms are needed now more than ever to evade DDoS, scalper bots and scams.
It doesn't have to be cloudflare, though they are the biggest and the performance is renown. Deflect - deflect.ca is a Canadian alternative solution I've seen implemented on Cory Doctorow's blogsite pluralistic.net
The bottom line up front: its not a Cloudflare issue or a Canadian online retailer issue, it's legitimately an issue caused by something on your side.
Cloudflare has the best AI, malware, DDoS, and botnet protection i have ever seen from any commercial provider in my 30 years of being in tech.
The fact that it's blocking your IP means you have a concerning issue with your network. If you are paying for a ISP that uses mobile networks to give you internet, you are likely being flagged because someone else is on your CGNAT doing fucky things and you need to switch to another ISP.
Or your own network in your house is compromised and you are genuinely part of a botnet that Cloudflare sees as a threat and blocked you.
I switched to Linux recently and immediately started getting cloudflare bot checks.
This happened to me on Debian with Firefox. Librewolf has no issues even though it’s a Firefox fork.
What browser are you using?
Firefox
I'm an idiot and didn't have proper reading comprehension, please accept my apologies.
Yeah, it may be an issue with the distro using a non-standard DNS as the resolver IP. What does it have it set as default in your settings?
It constantly blocks me for no reason, and has for years. There's very little chance that I'm part of a botnet. They're just wrong.
Bullshit. If flags immediately if you have
a) an adblocker b) a VPN c) Linux d) Any sort of security hardened browser like Cromite or degoogled Chromium or Fennec, etc...
It's not about someone doing something fucky on your network. It's about daring to do something that deprives the tech giants of profit. It's the next evolution of the "please disable your adblocker to continue viewing this site" message.
I have all of the things you just listed (also have a network tap running OPNSense, Suricata, Unbound, and with a SIEM intercepting ALL my net traffic to filter and reroute through my Cloudflare & Quad9 DNS name-server/resolver/TLD, along with AdGuard using a Hagezi blocklist) and rarely get flagged to prove I'm a human, if not ever. So what the fuck is really going on here?
What you are saying is entirely bullshit.
Don't use that site as the only diagnostic; it doesn't have a comprehensive check, and also doesn't support IPv6 so it is extremely limited in scope.
First, go here to grab both your IPv4 address and IPv6 address (in case you are CGNAT), then go here and search for both of your IPs.
Edit: I don't think I was clear, but the second link is what all cybersecurity analysts use, amongst a slew of other tools to confirm malicious activity.
Unfortunately, I can almost guarantee not a single Canadian retailer will see this post.
For me it behaves like that if I have adblockers and noscript running. It gets stuck in a loop
