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All the people posting all their reasons why they use Cloudflare ("it's free!"/"it's easy!"/"my site won't go down!") makes me realize this apparent arms race i

by amatecha 11mo ago

All the people posting all their reasons why they use Cloudflare ("it's free!"/"it's easy!"/"my site won't go down!") makes me realize this apparent arms race is going to effectively result in the total centralization of all web content. Cool. Seems like a great idea to rely on a singular US service rather than diversify the risk across hundreds/thousands of services around the world. What could possibly go wrong?

amatecha 11mo ago
Oh yeah: If you host behind Cloudflare, you can basically expect your site/service is inaccessible by all of Spain every weekend or so: the government there decided to just completely cut off Cloudflare to stop illegal sports streaming sites. A couple posts about this: https://daniel.es/blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/ https://daniel.es/blog/cloudflare-vs-la-liga/ https://harro.com/2025/06/06/is-blanket-ip-blocking-justified-la-liga-vs-cloudflare-on-piracy-enforcement/ https://harro.com/2025/06/06/is-blanket-ip-blocking-justifie... https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2025/04/15/la-liga-blocking-of-cloudflare-ips-in-spain/ https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2025/04/15/la-liga-blo... https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflare-wants-to-fix-spains-blocking-of-illegal-football-streams-ahead-of-next-laliga-season https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...