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I just use light mode all the time and I don’t have to worry about it. 😏
Are the verification pages for everyone or just more privacy focused browsers? They seem very common.
we’re currently challenging visitors who aren’t logged in regardless of the browser due to extremely aggressive LLM scrapers. as long as you’re staying logged in you won’t get challenged.
Isn’t it trivial for scrapers to provide login credentials? Or is a login wall sufficient to keep the scrapers away?
it would be trivial for them to not DDoS and yet they keep doing it.
if they were calling Lemmy APIs directly they would significantly reduce the load they bring to our service. if they were speaking ActivityPub they could even get the content delivered to their front door directly via federation.
they don’t care that they DDoS websites. they don’t care about optimizing for how certain types of websites are built, to reduce impact on third parties. the only language they speak is DDoS.
they intentionally spoof legitimate browser user agents and cycle through massive ranges of IP addresses. they have enormous pools of IPv4 addresses available that allow them to only use each IP for a couple of requests before cycling to the next one, which is yet another way they evade detection, as they are bypassing any rate limits we have configured that way.
Basically, if Cloudflare doesn’t like anything at all about you, you’ll get a verification page. And, since apparently Cloudflare only has object permanence for Chromium, they’ll flag other browsers as suspicious and force you to jump hoops for using them.
Just wanna note that the domain owner is the one who elected to use that level of security check, though TBF CF doesn’t make it very granular (and why enterprises tend to use their own WAFs)
Edit: for the record I don’t at all judge. Web has rampant bit activity these days and it’s a lot even for a large team.
Slash there are other settings in CF that could affect the behavior so it could be something else. Sae a comment that it was login-aware which makes me think it’s more than just the security levels
there are quite a few ways to use more granular targeting. for example, we have specific url patterns that get challenged if certain headers have certain values and are missing others, while other urls won’t get challenged.
Have you considered Dark Reader?
Feels like I still occasionally get flash-banged with a blank white screen before it kicks in
I hate how every website likes to flashbang you before realising oh dark mode exists.
I don’t understand why visual dynamics limiters/compressors don’t exist as audio dynamics limiters/compressors are foundational tools in audio engineering and the math isn’t that different.
Dark Mode in a dark room will always be an anxiety inducing experience because it is exactly like not putting a hard limiter on your audio chain to protect against sudden loud noises destroying your ears.
What is needed are a suite of visual dynamics tools at nearly the last step of graphical display, it could even be a setting on computer monitors themselves. It pisses me off this doesn’t already exist honestly.
f.lux is the software you seek. It’s been around since the 90’s.
No it isn’t, flux does the equivalent in audio engineering of just turning the volume down while applying a broad “tilt” eq that gently and broadly cuts high frequencies.
I get really frustrated that people always respond this way, the difference between a compressor and a volume knob + eq is that the compressor dynamically responds to inputs whereas a basic volume knob and equalizer do not dynamically respond to inputs but rather apply the same effect equally to all of the audio sent through it… this is one of the first things you learn in audio engineering and production and yet it is a total alien concept in computer displays even though everyone is constantly gouging their eyes out because we don’t have a way to place a limiter on how drastically contrast can change on a computer monitor.
Many OLED tvs actually have the feature you’re talking about. The industry term is Total Brightness Limiter (TBL).
TV reviews tend to talk about it as a negative thing though lol. My Sony Bravia does that. My Samsung smartphone from 2012 had that when you put it in “reader” mode but I think they got rid of it with later models.
Edit: some manufacturers also call this “selective dimming” but you have to be careful with that because sometimes it means the panel will do the exact opposite of what you’re asking for and artificially boost the bright areas.
Anyways I would highly recommend rtings.com as they do a much better job of documenting these features than the manufacturers do lol.
I set the dark mode toggles on my sites to be inverted to cull out the weaker users
You monster!
The Waterfox browser lets you force Dark Mode on everything.
