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ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. (www.buchodi.com)
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[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 41 points 12 hours ago

Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting.

The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city, your IP, your region from edge headers), and the ChatGPT React application itself (__reactRouterContext, loaderData, clientBootstrap). Turnstile doesn't just verify that you're running a real browser. It verifies that you're running a real browser that has fully booted a specific React application.

A bot that spoofs browser fingerprints but doesn't render the actual ChatGPT SPA will fail.