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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by benatkin on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:19PM (#42715663)
Frankly it’s none of y’alls beeswax what medium of content I’m deploying. I can understand restrictions on illegal and offensive content. I won’t be using Cloudflare if including a file or even putting some base64 in my html file will be a ToS violation.

It's these petty restrictions that make these pricing policies convenient, and it hurts the market :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) https://pricecontrol.biz/en/dumping-from-a-to-z/

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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:09PM (#42719685)
Wouldn't a significant restriction on what you can host for free move it further from being dumping? I don't understand your logic.
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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by benatkin on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:29PM (#42719840)
No, if they had to be more consistent with the rules this type of dumping wouldn’t be as effective.
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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:52PM (#42720947)
What's inconsistent about allowing web pages but not video?

If they had a limit of 50MB average per page navigation, would you call that rule consistent? It would have largely the same effect and I don't think it would affect the ease of dumping.

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