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Apparently CloudFlare’s turnstile can’t, as evidenced by several public-facing CRUD and mail routines we maintain that no longer are warding off the spam.

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Meanwhile the moment I (a human, of which I'm reasonably confident) see a Cloudflare captcha I nope immediately out of the site and block it forevermore in Kagi. It's not worth the waiting game. "Verifying..." lasts ages.

The anime girl captcha works fine and provides no such annoyance.

You seem to think that having a random anime girl is not an annoyance. anything that deviates from showing me the content that I've requested is an annoyance. Just because you prefer A over B does not mean that A is not still an annoyance.

> The anime girl captcha works fine and provides no such annoyance.

Same thoughts. Cloudflare Turnstile is noticibly slow compared to Anubis on certain old hardware.

Yeah, we benchmarked against a few bot detection provides end of last year (https://research.roundtable.ai/bot-benchmarking/), and Turnstile didn't do great when it came to AI agent detection. We hypothesized that Turnstile primarily focuses on device/network characteristics, which AI agents can bypass

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