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  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    How much you want to bet Cloudflare went to them and was like ‘hey either work for (sorry, “with”) us or we declare you a “suspicious” traffic source and block you.’

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Just big company = bad

        Nothing new on lemmy

        Just ignore that they heavily contribute to opensource, have extremely generous free tiers, open incident reports and regularly share deep dives into their architecture and problems

        • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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          7 months ago

          It’s such a weird mix of people with very strong opinions on topics they’re extremely ignorant about here, on Lemmy. I was first shocked to see it on the Technology community.

          I thought that, since Lemmy (and fediverse in general) is relatively difficult to get into, it’d attract more tech-savvy people, but now. Here, in this thread, we have a dude saying that “Cloudflare always sucked”. Any Windows-related discussion always devolves into crying about data being siphoned (and nobody has bothered to read the telemetry documentation, of course)…

          Just getting a weird cognitive dissonance whenever I’m browsing here.

        • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          7 months ago

          How did the literal best DDOS protection on the planet and the provider of a very safe and secure DNS suck?

          • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            By being a monopoly and having a unique chokehold on the internet. Even if we don’t get into their ties with various governments that they inevitably have to have, the fact that they alone can cripple the internet is concerning

            • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              7 months ago

              By being a monopoly

              How so? There are dozens of website hosts and DDOS protection services around.

              having a unique chokehold on the internet

              Have they ever utilised it in any extent?

              Even if we don’t get into their ties with various governments that they inevitably have to have

              That sounds suspiciously close to “I have zero proof but I think they’re doing X”. Can you elaborate on those government ties?

              the fact that they alone can cripple the internet is concerning

              Imagine a hosting company that’s 100% open-source, 100% vegan, 100% green, 100% pro-consumer. Their service is so good that the vast majority of the Internet starts using them.

              Do you start hating them at the point where they reach, lets say, 50% market share, just because they managed to grow that large?

              I guess what I’m asking is: do you have any concrete cause for the Cloudflare hate, or is it just a “they’re big therefore they must be bad, because big == bad”?