The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing the block was based on his browser configuration. This left the author unable to complete important work tasks and questioning how much control individuals really have over authentication in an increasingly centralized web ecosystem dependent on remote attestation. It highlights the need for transparency and user agency in how identity verification is implemented online.
To be fair, google does that to me too and I use chrome
I knew my privacy measures worked when a site account setup was throwing impossible capchas at me for using that browser.
It would show you a picture of some dice and ask you to add them all up and enter the sum. When I was on my browser with anti-fingerprinting etc. It was consistently throwing these impossible pictures of like ten different dice and giving a really low time not just to do the addition but to input it manually into their system. I must’ve made like 10 attempts wondering why it was so hard before I tried Edge and suddenly all the pictures were of like two dice and I had a whole minute each time.
There’s a special ring in hell for people who come up with these anti-privacy schemes.