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Re:Ask HN: IPv4 mass scans – do many Cloudflare customers pa... by unknownaccount on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:11PM (#32715911)
>It would be nice if cloudflare has automation to proactively checked and reach out to paying customers who do have their servers exposed though

I suggested this idea to them months ago and was ignored. The way I see it, they rather continue to profit off of these ignorant customers rather than upset them by alerting them to the danger they are exposed to.

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Re:Ask HN: IPv4 mass scans – do many Cloudflare customers pa... by fomine3 on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:24AM (#32720843)
> continue to profit off of these ignorant customers

What you mean? Anyway they get service fee and receive traffic regardless of origin server is vulnerable to DDoS. I agree it's good to have such feature but it's neither CF's fault nor a pitfall they make. I don't find any bad faith here.

Also it works as a CDN even if origin server is exposed, unless origin server is attacked.

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