While I have been reading through this topic, I have been feeling worried since I was thinking about using Cloudflare to protect a site of mine for some time. This is because I found out from somewhere that they have protection against AI LLMs scraping page data from websites, which is what I'm mainly worried about since there are things and stories that I put a lot of thought and work into. And finding out about Cloudflare shutting someone else down here over what sounds like the level of traffic has me feeling I might not be able to use them and not sure what other options there are.
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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h
(robindev.substack.com)
Yet more evidence that CloudFlare is inherently damaging and hostile to the Internet.
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Not a huge surprise, they've got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.
- what is HN? Edit: never mind, answered below: hacker news (ycombinator)
- daaamn... I hated cloudflare before for their shitty and non-adblocker-compatible (often not working at all) "I am not a bot" checks, but fuck me are those EVIL motherfuckers....
You think we're hitting that point where line go up must wreck lives?
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Yeah pretty much all red flags from cloud flare
Can't wait for this to become a louis rossman video
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