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> It's astonishing how Cloudflare can do such a poor job of determining the difference between a potential customer and an attacker. I don’t find that astonish
by travisjungroth 4y ago
> It's astonishing how Cloudflare can do such a poor job of determining the difference between a potential customer and an attacker.
I don’t find that astonishing at all. I can’t see how you’d disambiguate someone who is anonymous for good versus bad reasons. Not supporting the death of the anonymous internet, but it’s not happening because of incompetence.
- tomwheeler 4y ago> I can’t see how you’d disambiguate someone who is anonymous for good versus bad reasons. One obvious clue would be that there are no attacks coming from my IP address.
- thaumaturgy 4y agoI don't think Cloudflare is immune to organizational incompetence even if a lot of brilliant people work there. I have similar intermittent problems as ~tomwheeler, despite a mostly unchanged residential IP and a browser configuration that's only a little bit defensive. My outsider's impression is that Cloudflare has decided to rely much more heavily on browser fingerprinting than on classifying good/bad network activity. That puts them at odds with anyone that's taken steps to oppose being monetized by advertising firms.