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A comment on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach. Parent comment

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by prvit on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:39AM (#32662600)
> given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.

This is bullshit, there are a plenty of alternatives.

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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by marginalia_nu on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:39AM (#32662613)
Such as...?
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by prvit on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:42AM (#32662642)
OVH, Voxility, ddos-guard.net and many more.

Shit, even tiny providers like BuyVM offer good enough DDoS protection.

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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by marginalia_nu on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:47AM (#32662728)
DDoS-protection is only part of it. You also need the ability to distinguish automated browsers from real ones, or you're going to have several full time jobs' worth of cleaning up spam comments from everything that even slightly resembles an input field.
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by prvit on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:52AM (#32662800)
Testcookie handles this just fine, Voxility and DDoS-guard can both offer the browser bot detection reverse proxy too.

Of course you could also just integrate a CAPTCHA service of your choice.

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