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That's oversimplifying a bit and missing some critical information. Cloudflare wants to "protect" people from exposing even their general region. This has the
by johnklos 2y ago
That's oversimplifying a bit and missing some critical information.
Cloudflare wants to "protect" people from exposing even their general region. This has the side effect of making CDNs that aren't Cloudflare work worse. Cloudflare are being dicks because they do to others what they wouldn't want to be done to themselves, or what they themselves don't do to themselves.
It's not even that people are choosing to opt in to Cloudflare's bullshit. If you use Firefox in the US (and many other areas, but the US for sure) and you haven't manually configured Firefox or set up a canary domain, all your DNS lookups are going to Cloudflare, and they're using that to make other CDNs work less well. That's definitely shady and definitely bad on Cloudflare's end.
I'm glad some people are taking a stand.