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And cloudflare can actually sell them priority access to pass their bot protection or introduce micropaiments for agents access content. I feel cloudflare is ge
by riedel 5mo ago
And cloudflare can actually sell them priority access to pass their bot protection or introduce micropaiments for agents access content. I feel cloudflare is getting a bit scary tbh. It is like your friendly bot net.
- adamas 5mo agoI mean, Cloudflare was always kind of scary. They filter the world wide web, literally.
- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoYea, I appreciate them protecting it from DDOS. I always viewed them as a responsible company. To me this feels irresponsible and like it's main goal is to forward autonomous cyber attacks. Which is antithetical to what they do? Maybe I am missing the legitimate use case here, but I can only see this being used for removing responsibility from crime or espionage? Does anyone know offhand if cloudflare is a department of war contractor? I never looked into it. But this smells funny to me Somehow the Internet needs biometrics and age verification everywhere but also chat bots can buy property there without too much thought.
- kevin_thibedeau 5mo agoTheir TLS proxy is an open invitation to be backdoored on the unencrypted side even if they don't officially coordinate.
- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoI never thought about that, but yes I would be weary of that as well.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoMost people don't get DDOSed, and for many of the ones that do, they can just wait it out until the attacker gets tired of burning money. It's very costly and risky for the attacker. Obviously they do occur sometimes - so does murder - but Cloudflare is massively exaggerating the risk of drive-by shootings to make you buy their bulletproof vests.
- dragonelite 5mo agoIt's the western great fire wall, good thing the things within the fire wall is huge and encapsulate still most of the world.
- dwroberts 5mo agoThis made me realise they’re doing the same thing the AI labs are doing: selling both the problem and the solution. They are arming spammers and scammers with these tools so you need their product to protect yourself from them
- cyanydeez 5mo agoWelcome to the grift economy.
- kingleopold 5mo agostate did this for centuries or longer btw. they create violence/war in some area of the planet, then offer to "fix it". like wmd's in iraq and hormuz problem now, lmao. remember how hormuz was not a problem and it was wideoy peaceful and open months ago? lol
- cyanydeez 5mo agoyou can just say "Society"; it's bizarre people think there's some magic to governance that's above in beyond people forming groups and rules.
- goatlover 5mo agoDepends on how democratic the Society is. The less so, the more it's a powerful minority at the top. How much say did the average US citizen have in starting this war with Iran? It's not something the current administration ran on to get elected. It's not very popular in the polling.
- fhn 5mo agobut you live in these "states" so aren't you the problem?