You haven't needed them in all these decades. You do not need them now.

This unnecessary "intervening layer" is basically destroying the functionality of the site during ordinary interactions with it. You have interjected a far-away "proxy" that is somehow supposed to provide "benefits" which it very simply does not. Revoke the contract and move on.

Coudn't agree more with sundialsvcs. I have to wait 15 seconds and more on first attempt to conect to this site.

I cannot get in at all using FF-115 on Slackware. With the same version on AntiX, I get in but it takes a couple of minutes per page to authenticate myself!!

I have just downloaded FF-126 from the Mozilla site and that works. I shall continue to use it out of my home directory for LQ only until this stupid nonsense is cleared up. @Jeremy, if you carry on working with these clowns, you will lose just about every useful contributor.

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Ditto for me. I am currently in a nursing home with miserably slow wifi (speed of dialup) and a ridiculously configured firewall I have no control over. Throw in this cloudflare and "I am not a robot" - that doesn't require any interaction) and it has turned reading the site into a long slow march to the sea. All this, as a logged in user keeping my LQ cookies, etc. I can't imagine what is happening to people who are not members and have ads being served on top of the hurdles.

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Ditto for me. I am currently in a nursing home with miserably slow wifi (speed of dialup) and a ridiculously configured firewall I have no control over. Throw in this cloudflare and "I am not a robot" - (that doesn't require any action on my part) and it has turned reading the site into a long slow march to the sea. All this, as a logged in user keeping my LQ cookies, etc. I can't imagine what is happening to people who are not members and have ads being served on top of the hurdles.

Additionally, having trouble trying to edit this post. I apologize for any double posting

Another bugbear: I have just discovered that if you leave your browser for a few minutes to do something else and then come back to it, you have to go through the entire authentication routine again.

Furthermore another entity called datadog is spying on your input.

Agree. A pain in the ... ah, neck .

I also feel very frustrated by the new Cloudflare thing.

However, I also know that there are many other sites using Cloudflare that do not resort to this annoying behavior, so maybe an adjustment would be all that is needed.

But please stop with that authentication/captcha thing!!

There seems to be frequent congestion on this site since yesterday evening.
Does Cloudflare cause it, or does it just make things worse?

Cloudfare is an unnecessary nuisance.

Yes, Cloudflare causes it. There isn't actually a lot of action at LQ over weekends, judging by the notifications that arrive in my mailbox.

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I agree. I was totally unaware of it until yesterday. Is it really necessary?

Cloudflare have been an intermittent nuisance for a long time but the present clusterf*** started after lunch yesterday and has been continuing ever since. I suppose these people are proud of themselves for ruining what used to be one of the best Linux information sites on the Web.

I too was unaware of it until yesterday. That being the case, I would like to hear from the site owners/admins before I go demanding anything. It could have worked so well none of us were aware of it for years on end, or it could be an ISP choice.

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I've never had a probem before but now i have to repeatedlylick on a link and changing forums brings up the stupid i am not a robot pages it then takes 30-45 seconds to oadthe page fix this or start losing members

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