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So this "article" "source" is Cloudflare, claiming Cloudflare blocked some super duper mega attack, but gives zero verifiable detail about any of it. Now I hat
by encom 1y ago
So this "article" "source" is Cloudflare, claiming Cloudflare blocked some super duper mega attack, but gives zero verifiable detail about any of it.
Now I hate Cloudflare with a passion, but even setting that aside, this is journalistic malpractice - it's basically a sponsored post. I was going to say I expected better from Ars Technica, but their glory days are long gone.
- decremental 1y ago[dead]
- gundmc 1y agoWhy do you hate Cloudflare so passionately?
- immibis 1y agoThere are many reasons Cloudflare should be hated. The main one is that their goal is to centralize the Internet. A secondary one is all those bloody captchas. A tertiary one is that they often block Tor, even if you pass a captcha. Yes, it's configurable, but their recommended settings are the ones that help break the internet. A fourth one is that many DDoS-for-hire sites are protected behind Cloudflare, which allows them because they are good for its business model. Need I go on? However in this case I think we can rely on them to tell us what they did. If they say they got a 7.3 Tbps UDP DDoS, chances are good they actually did.
- 6r17 1y agotbh i get you ; but one has to realize this has nothing to do with that company and everything to do with the current nature of technological business where "everyone wins it all What I say is that instead of hating on cloudflare one can look up how a DNS server works and start getting into DDOS mitigation ; but even after a couple of month anybody would still just have scratched the surface of it. I don't think it's Cloudflare "goal" to centralize the internet, neither it is to set up captcha everywhere ; but it's definitely frustrating
- immibis 1y agoIt's every internet company's goal to centralize the part of the internet that aligns with what they so; cloudflare's part happens to be most of the internet, since they provide low-level infrastructure services.
- greggsy 1y agoHow is CF not a valid primary source? They literally are a DDoS mitigation service.