General Discussion • Re: wtf? almost every forum and website is on cloudflare now?

I just hit a CF blocking page trying to login to my phone account. I usually use the app to pay but it wouldn't let me in (happens sometime when they change something). I then tried website on laptop First in PM and had to allow more domains. Reluctantly had to even allow google fonts (I BLOCK GOOGLE EVERYWHERE). After logging in, got CF error (browser not supported, etc.). Finally went through on it's own (crazy behavior IMO).

But what I'm now wondering is with all these servers beefing up their security and forcing us to lower ours, are these bots and AI stuff the website owners defend against so much also scarfing up info from our computers because we have to allow almost everything. I have the feeling they are and storing it in an AI database in one of their data centers. But of course I can't prove it.