Re: Firefox complaint

[Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org>]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:

> > An Incapsula competitor, ScrapFly, explains why they think the
> > blocking is primarily Javascript based:
> > https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-javascript/
>
> "..javascript is by far the most powerful tool because it allows
> arbitrary code execution on the client machine."
>
> The work of the Devil.
>
> I had the site not work in FF with No-Script nor in Opera with no
> restrictions. But we are not getting to the web page at all, so
> JavaScript is not involved. It's a filtering proxy, and We Are Not
> Welcome. Not, as far as I can see, that anyone outside the US has any
> use for the site.

The ScrapFly author Granitosaurus also wrote:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47581662/how-incapsula-works-and-how-to-beat-it
« Incapsula, like many other anti-scraping services, uses 3 types of details to 
identify web scrapers:

 1. IP address meta information
 2. Javascript Fingerprinting
 3. Request analysis »

So it's either your IP or something in your Request.  For me it's very 
probably my Starlink IP.  Roger