Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
6 points by sanxiyn
6 points by sanxiyn
What a fun business model: use Turnstile to lock out random people from a horrific amount of the Internet but for a small fee one can rent a browser from them. Turns out those Opera folks just started from the wrong end of the pipe
To be fair, they always detect it as bot traffic, so it won't even get hit by a Turnstile challenge, just blocked outright.
Contrary to running a browser on your laptop (where you're visiting sites you trust, and it's acceptable to share some resources between them), [...]
I disagree with this assertion - users visit untrusted sites constantly on their laptops! That's why browsers are such a critical security boundary, to the point that each site runs in its own process and major browsers are updated biweekly.
I like the idea, but I don't like the idea of running my browser on a cloud provider's architecture, especially if I'm doing things like medical research or things that are personal. I know in theory that they're supposed to be safe but count me paranoid I like being able to do things more locally. It's not perfect but at least I control the computer. To some degree.
Let me guess, this browser will be allowed to bypass any and all anti-bot protections on cloudflare?
No, according to the FAQ it will always be detected as a bot. There are also mandatory headers included with each request.