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I'm regularly surprised why Cloudflare gets so much love specially here on HN. Cloudflare is slow, it man-in-the-middles websites, it shows a redirect page rand
by soheil 5y ago
I'm regularly surprised why Cloudflare gets so much love specially here on HN. Cloudflare is slow, it man-in-the-middles websites, it shows a redirect page randomly for no apparent reason on websites that it powers, it does questionable things at the DNS level, it randomly shows captchas for no apparent reason, the list goes on. Almost every website nowadays uses this monstrosity. We're handing over the internet on a silver platter to them. I think there are better alternatives and I'm so glad at least Fastly is debunking their bs experiment.
- celsoazevedo 5y ago> it man-in-the-middles websites That's just how reverse proxies work. I'm not saying that this is good, but anyone offering the same service is doing the same thing.
- sgtfrankieboy 5y ago>no apparent reason A big reason is making sure the website behind it stays online. Having to deal with weekly/daily DDOS attacks yourself takes a lot of time.