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> Let's be honest here. Your service has likely caused millions of people harm who one day to the other are suddenly blocked from half the WWW If this was true
by samcat116 3y ago
> Let's be honest here. Your service has likely caused millions of people harm who one day to the other are suddenly blocked from half the WWW
If this was true, Cloudflare wouldn't be a good product used by a lot of sites.
- lmm 3y agoExcluding people who are poor, weird, privacy-conscious or otherwise inconvenient from your site is a feature not a bug, especially when you can pretend it's an accident.
- bombolo 3y agoYou're assuming website owners are aware of the issue… How would they know? Cloudflare is just telling them it blocked a bunch of bots.
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoThey have before and after analytics.....
- bombolo 3y agoThey will presume the before traffic was bots? Unless they also see a drop in sales or ads they won't notice.
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoI mean if sales didn't drop why would they care?
- bombolo 3y agoIf it's a ebsite that doesn't sell anything they won't notice.
- psd1 3y agoThat's a false dichotomy. It is both a good and a bad product, depending on perspective. To a large firm, 1% failure is acceptable. To the affected 1%, it's a disaster. Consider wrongful imprisonment as an example. The penalties for being excluded from the web are fairly severe, and looking to become more so. CF is fairly lean; there is no available human to operate an escape hatch for when things go wrong. When I'm king, every block or account suspension must provide a phone number, and hang the inefficiency.