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You are right. They are "appointed" by the website owner. And the website owner can go another way if they don't like what Cloudflare is doing. Cloudflare's po
by lucumo 4y ago
You are right. They are "appointed" by the website owner. And the website owner can go another way if they don't like what Cloudflare is doing.
Cloudflare's power fundamentally comes from the good job they do protecting website owners. GP may not like it, but many website owners clearly feel they need the protection.
There is no Grand Moral dilemma here, just basic tradeoffs between costs and availability. No different than a shop not shipping to a country with high shipping costs.
- creeble 4y agoOther than the grand moral dilemma of Cloudflare hosting (protecting) DDoS-for-hire sites, and deliberately ignoring requests to stop.
- Terretta 4y ago> power fundamentally comes from the good job they do protecting website owners The power came from "free" CDN as loss leader (which is clever because the long tail of readerless sites costs essentially nil to cache but will still bump up the NPS).