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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by nine_k on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:18PM (#34180454)
It's not that Cloudflare volunteers to protect someone's web site form voracious bots. It's a choice made, and often paid for, by the site's owner.

So the site owner deliberately accepts that some small percentage of users won't be able to access the site. It may be a reasonable price to pay fr protection against a DoS attack, when no users can access the site anyway.

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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by nonrandomstring on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:36PM (#34180616)
> the site owner deliberately accepts that some small percentage of users won't be able to access the site

I disagree with this because I don't think those site owners are fully informed.

So far, arguments for Cloudflare paint its users as helpless and clueless. Simultaneously they are fully cognisant of the complexities and consequences.

I rather think they see a tick-box on a webmin form that says "Block Evil Hackers", and never give it a second thought.

But you raise a good point. Perhaps Cloudflare are primarily guilty of misrepresenting their product.

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