Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage
by thefreeman on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:50PM
(#33334637)
Cool. That is certainly your choice. It is also the choice of the website operators whose sites you try to visit to block your traffic since you won't opt in to their security precautions.
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Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:24PM
(#33335005)
But I don't invite people to my house and then slam the door in their
face.
No, but you do have undiscussed conditions to enter...
Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage
by thefreeman on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:25AM
(#33345148)
Your house isn't also accessible by anyone in the world, anywhere, at any time. People who complain about this stuff conveniently ignore that a massive amount of traffic to public websites is malicious and automated in nature. It's not crazy that website operators want to block that stuff. They would rather block the .0001% of people who choose to block javascript than expose their site to the junk. You can rage at Cloudflare all you want but if it wasn't a service people wanted then they wouldn't be offering it.
Re:Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage
by nonrandomstring on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:08PM
(#33345789)
> .0001% of people who choose to block javascript
The measured number of browsers blocking JavaScript varies between about 0.7% and 4% with an estimated global average hovering around 1.5%. Here are some sources [1,2,3].
[1] https://www.cotsweb.com/blog/how-many-people-have-javascript...
[2] https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/stats-no-javascript....
[3] https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled