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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by burnished on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:50PM (#34180225)
Is cloudflare self appointed? I was under the impression that they were a service provider that people hired/employed/used?
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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by lucumo on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:28AM (#34182777)
You are right. They are "appointed" by the website owner. And the website owner can go another way if they don't like what Cloudflare is doing.

Cloudflare's power fundamentally comes from the good job they do protecting website owners. GP may not like it, but many website owners clearly feel they need the protection.

There is no Grand Moral dilemma here, just basic tradeoffs between costs and availability. No different than a shop not shipping to a country with high shipping costs.

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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by creeble on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:26AM (#34186519)
Other than the grand moral dilemma of Cloudflare hosting (protecting) DDoS-for-hire sites, and deliberately ignoring requests to stop.
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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by Terretta on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:10PM (#34199002)
> power fundamentally comes from the good job they do protecting website owners

The power came from "free" CDN as loss leader (which is clever because the long tail of readerless sites costs essentially nil to cache but will still bump up the NPS).

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