Re:Why Cloudflare Is a Threat to the Internet Privacy
by jiggawatts on Saturday June 29, 2024 @10:34PM
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I have the opposite problem: Cloudflare allows completely private hosting, allowing an endless parade of phishing attacks to remain anonymous and unpunished.
Every day I get at least one spam SMS with a link in it. That link is invariably registered with Cloudflare with "hostmaster privacy" and hidden behind a Cloudflare CDN so there is no way to track down the owners.
People have tried to contact Cloudflare to block these criminals, but Cloudflare forwards all complaints to /dev/null.
Behaviour like this seems pro-freedom, but it is the diametric opposite of the type of Internet we used to have in the 1990s where people were people, and bad actors could be named and shamed.
CloudFlare is pro-bot, pro-phish, pro-crime, and pro-spam.
Every day I get at least one spam SMS with a link in it. That link is invariably registered with Cloudflare with "hostmaster privacy" and hidden behind a Cloudflare CDN so there is no way to track down the owners.
People have tried to contact Cloudflare to block these criminals, but Cloudflare forwards all complaints to /dev/null.
Behaviour like this seems pro-freedom, but it is the diametric opposite of the type of Internet we used to have in the 1990s where people were people, and bad actors could be named and shamed.
CloudFlare is pro-bot, pro-phish, pro-crime, and pro-spam.