Cloudflare too excessive
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From: Newport Beach, CA and Melbourne, Australia
Cloudfare doesn't like VPN's. I guess they 'think' they're just IP spoofing, which is true even if the intent is not malicous but how do they know that.
But even on my home network, no VPN in play, sometimes photo's don't display.
But even on my home network, no VPN in play, sometimes photo's don't display.
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i think you've pretty much nailed the reason for Cloudflare's approach. as to the oddness with photos, the gallery and the forum are technically separate items behind the firewall, so there could be discrepancies between their Cloudflare/vpn/whatever settings. This stuff is over my head, clearly.
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From: Newport Beach, CA and Melbourne, Australia
i think you've pretty much nailed the reason for Cloudflare's approach. as to the oddness with photos, the gallery and the forum are technically separate items behind the firewall, so there could be discrepancies between their Cloudflare/vpn/whatever settings. This stuff is over my head, clearly.
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Heya,
As mentioned , I'm in Singapore , and have noticed the cloudflare checks recently , but only from about May onwards the pictures don't load.
Strangely the pictures before May still load as per normal.
Forum works as per normal , with the exception of pictures.
In Singapore, no VPN.
Have tried multiple ISPs
My office
My home and also my Telco on 5g on my phone. Same schtick.
I notice the cloudflare check on other news sites I read , but no degradation on loading pictures.
Tried Microsoft edge, chrome and Firefox , all the same.
Cleared cookies , history as well.
Understand if it's a setting you can't change on your end , but just trying to figure it out
Thanks
J
As mentioned , I'm in Singapore , and have noticed the cloudflare checks recently , but only from about May onwards the pictures don't load.
Strangely the pictures before May still load as per normal.
Forum works as per normal , with the exception of pictures.
In Singapore, no VPN.
Have tried multiple ISPs
My office
My home and also my Telco on 5g on my phone. Same schtick.
I notice the cloudflare check on other news sites I read , but no degradation on loading pictures.
Tried Microsoft edge, chrome and Firefox , all the same.
Cleared cookies , history as well.
Understand if it's a setting you can't change on your end , but just trying to figure it out
Thanks
J
Track Day
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 23
Likes: 25
Here's the best part
I just landed in Denmark Copenhagen, and the pictures now load . Still see the cloudflare thing
If the gallery / forum are seperated , it must be some weird setting thats not synced with cloudflare settings . Hence the previous pictures load .
Dunno if any of this helps.
I'm obviously a very small number of people affected , so will accept whatever the outcome may be.
Thanks again
J
I just landed in Denmark Copenhagen, and the pictures now load . Still see the cloudflare thing
If the gallery / forum are seperated , it must be some weird setting thats not synced with cloudflare settings . Hence the previous pictures load .
Dunno if any of this helps.
I'm obviously a very small number of people affected , so will accept whatever the outcome may be.
Thanks again
J
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Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,295
Likes: 3,705
From: Newport Beach, CA and Melbourne, Australia
Here's the best part
I just landed in Denmark Copenhagen, and the pictures now load . Still see the cloudflare thing
If the gallery / forum are seperated , it must be some weird setting thats not synced with cloudflare settings . Hence the previous pictures load .
Dunno if any of this helps.
I'm obviously a very small number of people affected , so will accept whatever the outcome may be.
Thanks again
J
I just landed in Denmark Copenhagen, and the pictures now load . Still see the cloudflare thing
If the gallery / forum are seperated , it must be some weird setting thats not synced with cloudflare settings . Hence the previous pictures load .
Dunno if any of this helps.
I'm obviously a very small number of people affected , so will accept whatever the outcome may be.
Thanks again
J