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Re:Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet by doublerabbit on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:37PM (#35748839)
> ... I don't think people are using cloudflare to protect something willy nilly.

I do, it's a buzzword. Cloudflare, you don't have that? Your not cool unless you do.

With the young apprentices learning the ropes of SRE/SysAdmin, DDoS protection has been painted as a #101 of the web when realistically you don't need it.

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Re:Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet by rhtgrg on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:25AM (#35750021)
Also, Cloudflare is one of the easier free gateways to set up for your domain. Lots of people are using that (and Cloudflare apps) and they probably enable these protections without giving it a second thought.
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