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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 152 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is a nice CloudFlare ad

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

yeah. still not worth dealing with fucking cloudflare. fuck cloudflare.

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[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

DEATH TO CLOUDFLARE!

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That would be terrible for a lot of people as they are the only company providing such services that doesn't charge for traffic.

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[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

They can use web.archive.org as a cdn(I do that to cloudflare websites). But honestly, cloudflare or not, the internet is broken.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you explain please? How can I use archive.org as a cdn for my website?

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[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

just take a snapshot of your website... then make all links to your website link to that snapshot, and turn your server off.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh, well, it's okay if it suits for you. Just not at all an alternative to cloudflare.

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[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I have an alternative to cloudflare, it's sitting in my living room and it's called a raspberry pi.

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[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's wrong with cloud flare?

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Centralization, mostly, but also their hands-off approach to most fascist content.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They kind of have to be hands off or risk losing safe harbor protections.

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[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

I get the centralization concerns, but I would think that's on the consumer since there are other options. As for the fascist content, as another commenter said, they could risk their safe harbor if they started stated regulating content that they weren't legally required to regulate.

Just my thoughts.

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