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"To be honest, the internet was worse without Cloudflare, so as long as they provide a good service for their customers, I'm fine with it." Cloudflare not only
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1y ago
"To be honest, the internet was worse without Cloudflare, so as long as they provide a good service for their customers, I'm fine with it."
Cloudflare not only blocking IA but asking for money on behalf of the website operator, as a "service"
https://web.archive.org/web/20250920180605if_/https://www.theverge.com/news/773928/google-open-web-rapid-decline https://web.archive.org/web/20250920180605if_/https://www.th...
- 542458 1y agoThat's the site owner demanding payment via cloudflare, not cloudflare unilaterally deciding to charge money (as far as I can tell at least). https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ Looks like The Verge either set up an excessively tight pay-per-crawl policy or doesn't want IA scraping their stuff.
- incoming1211 1y agoCloudflare enabled blocking by default. People were on X complaining about it.
- thephyber 1y agoBlocking access to everyone or to scraping crawlers? They have detailed stats about the behavior of all visitors, including how bot-like they are and how likely they are to scrape your (their users’) content.
- stingraycharles 1y agoCloudflare offers a service to website owners to do that, yes. It’s the owners’ decision if they want to monetize on the content. Is it that bad that Cloudflare offers people these choices?
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1y agoNot restricted to CF https://web.archive.org/web/20250826113041if_/https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pumpanddump.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20250826113041if_/https://www.in...