From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Rich  wrote at 13:10 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   > Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >> Rich  wrote:   
   >>> Computer Nerd Kev  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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA   
      
      
   Cloudflare captchas are very annoying, it completely broke a webscraping   
   script I used :(   
   Also I want to use NoScript   
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