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Safari and CloudFlare issue

uncleiven

uncleiven

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Nov 6, 2009
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In the last few days I am having issues when using Safari and websites that have a CloudFlare verification tick box.

It tries to load and then nothing shows on the page, I don't have the same issue in Chrome.

Any ideas?

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same happens on iPadOS 17 beta 2. Workaround: using Edge and switching to viewing the mobile version of the site. Even then you might have to reload a site.
 
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Make sure it’s actually turned off, in previous macOS beta releases there was a similar bug.
Try https://ipleak.net, or another such website, in Safari and in Chrome.
 
So far the only workaround - at least for my systems - as mentioned is to install and use Microsoft’s Edge. Surf to the cloudflare protected site, if it does not load as for the OP, switch to the mobil site version in Edge. It should load. Changing the user agent in Safari does not help.
 
Slartibart said:
same happens on iPadOS 17 beta 2. Workaround: using Edge and switching to viewing the mobile version of the site. Even then you might have to reload a site.
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I’m on iOS/iPadOS 17 beta 3 and seeing this with You.com — both via web access and directly via the You.com app. Edge displayed the same problem for me. The solution was to turn off iCloud private relay and proton vpn and refresh the browser. Both Safari and Edge loaded You.com. I then reactivated iCloud Private Relay and everything is now working properly on both Safari and Edge.
 
This is certainly still an issue on the latest betas, both on iOS and macOS. I wonder what the underlying problem is though: Cloudflare uses a variety of bot challenges, but only the one that OP screenshotted actually fails, at least for me. The other types of Cloudflare challenges work fine, and curiously, even the one that has issues randomly also passes.

Initially I also thought that it had to do with Private Relay and other new Safari tracker protections, but disabling them everywhere (and I mean in iCloud, Safari settings, everywhere), has zero effect.
 
Another observation: this particular cloudflare challenge works always in Edge at “low traffic times” for the country I am currently in. It often still fails in Safari or DuckDuckGo, but the success rate after reloading is definitively higher at these hours.
And to add to e.g. @pacificblue: using (or not) whatever proxy to e.g. block ads has no effect on this.
 
Slartibart said:
Another observation: this particular cloudflare challenge works always in Edge at “low traffic times” for the country I am currently in. It often still fails in Safari or DuckDuckGo, but the success rate after reloading is definitively higher at these hours.
And to add to e.g. @pacificblue: using (or not) whatever proxy to e.g. block ads has no effect on this.
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I noticed that too, I am managing to get pass through it more often, but it's definitely much more of a hamper. Clicking on it, then refreshing is working than disabling anything else.
 
it seems to be fixed with the latest beta iPadOS 17.0 (21A5277j), for anyone else too?
 
Still not fixed and this is VERY frustrating. What doesn't make sense is that Cloudfare not Apple address the issue and I've written both. Not that the fastest way I've been able to "get around" it is to do what uncleiven mentioned above, except instead of Developer > User Agent, I do Developer > Open with... (and I chose Brave, because I don't have MS or Google browser products on my system). So, basically I'm having to use another browser than Safari. Even Private Safari window won't always work.
 
I do have it and generally find I have to switch off private relay to fix. Private Relay seems to be breaking stuff a lot more of late - I regularly get served pages from a different continent as websites seem to be thinking I'm elsewhere
 
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