Re: Google Cache finally gone

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 13:10 this Wednesday (GMT):

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Damn, I've been using it more and more as JS-walls have become more
frequent and prevent me reading pages in lightweight web browsers
without JS support. In fact it's about the only thing I use Google
for!

 
This one works pretty well for /most/ paywalls: https://archive.is/

 
Thanks, yes that has the article. It wasn't actually behind a
paywall, but using one of these cache services like Cloudflare that
can block access from browsers without Javascript saying something
like "Enable Javascript and cookies to continue". I thought
"JS-wall" was a good term for it since the effect is like a paywal,
only they demand you run their JS rather than demand payment.

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Ah, those.  The term you are searching for is "capatcha" [1], at least
in the 'cloudfare' case.  They are, supposedly, to prevent bots from
scraping/DDOSing the site.  However, an awful lot of sites add them
either because they decide to "go cloudfare" (in a belief they are big
and popular enough to justify such) or simply because the web devs are
idiots that just "follow the herd" and because they see caapatcha's
else where, they add one here.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

 
 
Cloudflare captchas are very annoying, it completely broke a
webscraping script I used :(

Which is, actually, the entire *point* of a captcha, to stop web
scrapers.

Also I want to use NoScript

Then go ahead and do so.  But for certian sites you want to actually
use, you'll have to enable enough JS to get at least the minimum
workinng.  My NoScript setup has lots of exceptions for the sites I
need to use (bank, etc.) that won't work otherwise without some of the
JS turned on (as much as I'd prefer they worked with no JS, I can't
convince them of that fact when 99.8% of their clients run browsers
with JS turned on at all times).