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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru... by themagician on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:54AM (#22435009)
Never used Cloudflare. The internet has existed without it for quite some time. I’m not even sure what they do, to be honest. Aren’t they just another CDN?

I’ve used AWS and Cloudfront for years, never had a problem. And that’s only for high traffic applications.

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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru... by jamesgeck0 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:41PM (#22437561)
About 10% of web requests flow through Cloudflare. If they decide they don't like you, you're gonna have a hard time.
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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru... by themagician on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:16PM (#22437991)
I guess you just have to do what the other 90% do.
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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru... by jamesgeck0 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:14PM (#22438527)
To an extent? But you have no control over what DNS server your visitors use, for example, and Cloudflare is the default for Firefox users in the US.
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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru... by themagician on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:59PM (#22438902)
Has Cloudflare created a blacklist on their DNS server of entries they won't resolve?

EDIT I just looked this up. Seems like, in this specific instance, Cloudflare is contractually bound by the following:

"The party operating the resolver should not by default block or filter domains unless specifically required by law in the jurisdiction in which the resolver operates. Mozilla will generally seek to work with DNS resolvers that provide unfiltered DNS responses and, at its discretion, may remove from consideration resolvers subject to legal filtering obligations, depending on the scope and nature of those obligations."

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