Anyone else frustrated with “secure connection checks”?
Many sites seem to deploy cloudflare's bot check / secure connection check. And the thing outright does not seem to work with all browsers or setups. Web seems to slowly fall in to the "just use chrome" hole.
Yes, it can be quite frustrating. On my search engine[0] I tag sites that use captcha services and browser checks so that the user has more transparency and can choose to avoid sites that use these services if they want.
[0] https://ichi.do
The funniest thing I've seen recently, is government API services that have been put behind Cloudflare. Which means, you literally cannot access them without a browser. Let me reiterate, you cannot use machine-to-machine APIs without a browser.
What bothers me is the mendacity.
No, you're not checking for a "secure connection". What you're doing is taking a fingerprint, to both deanonymize me and detect if I'm a bot.
What browser/OS are you using? What country are you in? Are you using Tor?