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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by madeofpalk on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:28PM (#28031982)
> The solution is to have ten CloudFlares so that the path between consumers and websites isn't regulated by a single organization.

There are! Cloudflare is by no means the biggest CDN provider - plenty of others exist out there. Akamai, CDNs from Google/Azure/AWS, Fastly, at least.

What makes Cloudflare so unique in it attracting criticism like this? They're just a bog-standard CDN, the likes of which has existed long before Cloudflare. Is it just because they're the most "visible", having a free plan that people use?

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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by cocoafleck on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:39PM (#28032045)
I have never seen captchas from another CDN that I can recall. I believe that is partially responsible for people's opinions.
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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by potamic on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:48AM (#28034335)
The Cloudflare captcha is ridiculous really and makes sites completely unusable with a VPN. I even get captchas for different pages on the same domain! It used to be you only got captcha for form submissions. But somewhere along the line you started getting it for simply visiting web pages as well. Part of me wonders if I'm just getting played by these companies into labelling all their ML training sets for them.
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