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Originally Posted by MrGonzo
Yes I read it, but does it basically mean I cant do anything from my end?
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All you can try is described in our Cloudflare FAQ:
https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=83712
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Originally Posted by MrGonzo
I dont get why its blocking with some users and not with others.
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As described in that FAQ, the Cloudflare blocking logic is more or less a blackbox so I won't be the one who can answer you that question.
It is similar to how you can never know when/why Google captchas will be easy or hard to solve
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Originally Posted by MrGonzo
This Cloudflare behavior is weird becuase like I mentioned before...if a user has installed any "Video Downloader" addons into their browser, most of these addons can still grab the video links from Spankbang...which JD2 linkgrabber does/is still reading for me...so this is a workaround.
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Yap that is possible because such browser addons are intercepting the browsers traffic and once the video is playing, all Cloudflare checks are usually already processed.
Some websites however do also have Cloudflare checks when adding such video stream/directurls so yes you can call that a workaround but no it will not work for all websites so I think including it in our Cloudflare FAQ wouldn't be a good idea - what do you think?
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Originally Posted by MrGonzo
Just dont get why JD2 will not read the main site link, but the video link from the embedded video within the page...JD2 still grabs fine...weird.
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My above explanation should be enough to understand why.
Summary: Browser addons are working on another level - a level at which Cloudflare checks are usually already passed so whatever you do/grab afterwards will usually work fine.
At this level Cloudflare will already think that you are a human well...because you are (essentially you did by hand what JD usually automates) so it's not a big deal that you can now get those directurls.
That's also the reason why for some websites (again as explained in the Cloudflare FAQ), logging in via cookies will allow you to bypass Cloudflare (at least for some time) while the normal login via plugin will fail.
There are some open source projects that will try to bypass Cloudflare within a proxy to basically provide the html without Cloudflare for applications using that proxy.
Such projects could also be a possible solution e.g.:
github.com/NoahCardoza/CloudProxy
(Nope, I did not test this!)
For more information, please contact the website owner (in this case
Spankbang.com support) but do not expect helpful replies of owners of free websites as they most likely don't have a problem with blocking applications like JDownloader as a side-effect of using Cloudflare because every user who is using only JDownloader instead of viewing their content in browser will obviously never see their ads...