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Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers


Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with pr...

This time around it has been over six weeks and CloudFlare has been unable or unwilling to fix the problem on their end, effectively stalling any progress on the matter with various tactics including asking browser developers to sign overarching NDAs. In a comment, Slashdot reader BenFenner shares a list posted by Pale Moon's developer of reportedly affected browsers: Pale Moon Basilisk Waterfox Falkon SeaMonkey Various Firefox ESR flavors Thorium (on some systems) Ungoogled Chromium K-Meleon LibreWolf MyPal 68 Otter browser

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