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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notatoad on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:34PM (#45067053)
Which is really all that cloudflare is building here that people are mad about. It’s a way to give bots access to paywalled content.
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by positiveblue on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:45PM (#45067204)
Where everyone needs a cloudflare account to be able to pay*
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notatoad on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:51PM (#45067278)
“Everyone” in this context being bot operators who want to access websites who have decided to use cloudflare to block unauthenticated bot traffic.

Which is not everyone.

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