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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Well that all reads like extortion.

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Today's tech business model:

First you get the power, then you extort the money.

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Sounds like any Cloudflare customer should reconsider their hosting setup . Mark Anderson has decided to strip the customers to increase the bottom line... And once the numbers are up but the customers are gone.... Will move on to the next company

[-] QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Lemmy points counter at 666 as I read this post. Is this a sign?

[-] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

I'd be interested to see if / how Cloudflare will respond to this. Because at this point I'm not 100 percent sure who is in the right.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah I have no sympathy for a casino and as a software developer I would never work for one, but in the other corner you have a company with too much power.

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