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Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training

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1vuio0pswjnm7 · 1789532445 · focus · HN ↗
"Cloudflare classifies bots by behavior, and a single bot can exhibit more than one behavior."
Is that really true
CF classifies anyone not using a popular browser with Javascript enabled as a "bot"
CF fingerprints www users
As an example, look at CF's Permissions-Policy HTTP response header on a site with CF "bot protection", i.e., the "checking your browser" CAPTCHA nonsense (challenges.cloudflare.com). Then look at IA's Permissions-Policy response header. One CDN is advertiser-focused, the other is user-focused
IA = Internet Archive
1. userbinator · 1789534544 · focus · HN ↗
  CF classifies anyone not using a popular browser with Javascript enabled as a "bot"
  This is my biggest complaint about CF. They are implicitly supporting user-agent discrimination in favour of Big Browser, instead of discriminating on actual behaviour.
  ...and of course there are already companies running tons of VMs with "officially sanctioned" browser + OS stacks, that can get past all these "protections", for a fee.
  "AI bots" is the newest boogeyman they came up with to take away freedom.

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