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Have we really reached a point where DDoS mitigations are useless unless they're done by cloudflare and nobody else has a chance of keeping a site from being fo

Have we really reached a point where DDoS mitigations are useless unless they're done by cloudflare and nobody else has a chance of keeping a site from being forced offline by these attacks? I'd like to think that cloudflare isn't the final word on who is able to maintain a web-presence, or at the very least that they have competitors capable of offering a sufficient (if unequal) level of protection, but I honestly don't know.

viraptor 4y ago
There are other companies providing this service. It's not the ddos protection they're after though, but rather the identity / origin protection. Everyone else has been dropping them pretty quickly - only cloudflare is ok with using their lawyers to actively protect the attempted murders.