On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 03:13:48PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > I tried to look something up on packages.debian.org and I got an error > page saying I needed to enable JS. Then after I had enabled JS (which > I normally have disabled) I got an error page from Fastly saying I > needed to enable cookies. > > I tried in a private browsing tab and it loaded the page. Evidently > it has stored a cookie (but I'm not sure where in the firefox UI they > have hidden this information). I can't seem to find any information > about what these cookies are for. > > I think this is undesriable, unreasonable, and probably illegal in the > European Economic Area. > > I know we're all being hammered by llm criminals but I don't think > this is the answer. I think that's the reason too. I have no idea whether there is any defense from that LLM denial-of-service (if there _is? οne, I'd like to hear about it!). I'm somewhat surprised that they don't adapt (I mean: pretending to "be" a browser is a solved problem). I'm pretty annoyed by that, too. Cheers -- tomás
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