Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.

Outages have put this dependance to question, and the same with recent news about the US government obtaining data through subpoenas. It’s a free service that takes care of many of the difficulties when it comes to hosting your service online, but everyone knows that free is not free.

What do you all think about Cloudflare?

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[–] 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

In addition to the tech reasons mentioned, the click here checkbox is just a fucking infuriating interruption

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)

    More infuriating than captcha?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    No but we need to get rid of all types

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (5 children)

    How are you planning to do it? It's typically used as a defence against bots which are becoming more of problem not less. What you describe is Cloudflare's managed challenge, most of the time it doesn't even need you to click anything because you already clicked somewhere else.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Ideally a human user wouldn't have to encounter such a system at all

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    In your ideal world it means that you are tracked between websites. It's mostly how it works now.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Nah, the solution should just be done in the background. Invisible and not a forced interaction

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