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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I asked a question the other day and was curious if someone here may know another suggestion. Cloudflare "are you human" checkbox. Was hoping to find a way around that when going to articles and such. Someone suggested Silk Privacy Pass, but that was only for Desktop, I couldn't get it installed on Firefox or Cromite on Android. Has anyone heard of a way to keep a token or such that I may only have to click that human thing one time per VPN session or such?

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It depends on how nerdy you want to get.

Generally no, That checkmark is cloudflares multi-million dollar product that protects half of the internet from bot abuse. If there were a quick and easy work around then the bots would quickly learn and adopt it too. Sadly, it has a real penchant for triggering for regular users when you're using hardened browsers and VPNs as well. It would be nice if network admins cared a little more about sticking it to the man and using bot protection alternatives instead of just proxying through a cloudflare tunnel and calling it a day.

If you're slightly tech savvy and lucky then the site allows web crawlers/indexers or has RSS feeds. This lets you use an RSS feeder or a text scraper like NewsWaffle

What youre describing with saving a cookie to prove your identity is actually do-able, yt-dlp uses this to download age restricted content but getting that cookie extracted into a text file is a non-trivial nerdy thing the average person cant be trusted to do.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up about yt-dlp. Maybe if I start running into videos like that I can set up a way to execute the yt-dlp to download them in MP4 format on my jellyfin server using Tailscale or such to link the command. Then play from there.

Seems like a lot to watch a video, but I'll leave it on the back burner idea pile if ever needed. A lot of the text based stuff if it gives me to much issue I'll drop the link into archive.ph

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Your welcome! Its good to have a local DRM free backup of your favorite channels especially the ones you come back to for sleep aid or comfort when stressed. I would download them sooner than later while yt-dlp still works (googles been ramping up its war on adblockers and 3rd party frontends). BTW yt-dlp also works with bandcamp and soundcloud to extract audio :)