Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by llbeansandrice on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:13PM
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> They're going to find a new, harder to harass vendor for CDN.
This is a good thing. It raises the barrier of entry to do what they want to do. They will likely provide a worse service as well.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by DoctorOW on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:28PM
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> It raises the barrier of entry to do what they want to do.
How so?
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by killyourcar on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:58PM
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Any other CDN that will host then will not be as smooth and as capable and as well advertised as Cloudflare.
It will be harder to get protection, so fewer sites will be able to succeed.
If they get rid of Kiwi Farms, ultimately it's not going to fix the problem. They're going to find a new, harder to harass vendor for CDN. Cloudflare's detractors are going to find a new website to talk about.
If you're talking about all websites that do this kind of thing, I have my doubts about how this would look in practice. Take down websites that use hate speech? Work to debunk hateful myths would likely get caught in that. Suspend websites that get X number of reports? Congrats, you've given botnets a far more effective tool for DDOS. Don't suspend those websites until a human analyzes them? That'd be ideal, although it seems like that's the system they have. Those humans appear to be instructed to only intervene when Cloudflare itself is the one causing harm. Kiwi Farms is hosted elsewhere using Cloudflare as a CDN.