Cloudflare does not randomly block access to sites that don't deal with Cloudflare.
Cloudflare customers buy blocking service to their sites from Cloudflare. Any randomness there is just customer service issue.
If the customer specifically set a header match to block some Firefox variant, people wouldn't complain to cloudflare about it.
>... just customer service issue.
If your favorite website is blocking you, let them know. They can tweak a lot in their WAF settings. I don't think many websites care about obscure browsers, but it's something websites can control.
For instance they block me because I'm behind CGNAT and because some of the millions of machines also behind that CGNAT once did something unsavory.
I'm not a customer of Cloudflare, so I have no one to call, I just get blocked from endless websites or have to click a checkbox, solve puzzles and suffer other indignities because I'm using a reputable and popular ISP in my country.
Fuck Cloudflare. They're accelerating the utter shittiness of the web because of their indiscriminate solutions to web malfeasance, which are worse than the disease.
If Cloudflare is now taking a hit because it's become collateral damage to an over-generalised penalty system despite having done nothing wrong itself then it is difficult to find much sympathy. If this blocking exposes how much of the web we all use every day is now being routed via a single point of failure that has been operating largely as a law unto itself then that also seems like a positive step to me.
1. High genuine traffic
2. High bot traffic
3. Being DDoSed to death
Everyone else other than you get to enjoy a snappy and fast loading site. I think that’s a good trade off.
The core logic behind that sentence is that it's good to be in an unfair system, as long as you benefit from the system and don't get unfairly targeted.
Work camps are also a good thing, provided you're benefiting from the work rather than sent to the gulag.
Why can't everyone else suffer? What makes me the loser besides prejudice?
I'm hardly unique, there are many people who share an external IP.
Maybe the point is don't screw one half of the population to benefit the other half.