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Old 09-07-2023, 02:39 PM   #1
lucmove
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Cloudflare????!!!!!


Cloudflare??!! Really?! Why? Why do you need Cloudflare to interrupt my post submission and "check if the connection is secure"? I am logged in! I've been a member for 18 years. What are login and passwords for anyway? Please. Get rid of that Clouflare garbage. They're slowly owning every inch of the internet and you are enabling them.
 
Old 09-08-2023, 12:21 AM   #2
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You're wasting your bandwidth. We've all been complaining about this for months and nothing gets done.
 
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Old 09-08-2023, 05:45 AM   #3
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I never get bothered by cloudflare. Are you using proxies?
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You're wasting your bandwidth. We've all been complaining about this for months and nothing gets done.
It's a privately owned site as I understand it? You have the option to vote with your feet, that's about it.

If the site admin won't do anything about it, or there is that perception, it's because he's weighed up the pros and cons and prefers to stick with cloudflare. I don't like cloudlfare either, but it's not my site/hosting.

The site is running very dated bulletin board software. I don't think this is even supported anymore (?), so not running it behind something like cloudflare could be risky.
 
Old 09-08-2023, 12:56 PM   #4
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The combination of a "LQ Suggestions & Feedback" section and the concept of "vote with your feet" somehow doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Do they care or not?
 
Old 09-08-2023, 01:17 PM   #5
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The combination of a "LQ Suggestions & Feedback" section and the concept of "vote with your feet" somehow doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Do they care or not?
First, both can be true. Jeremy cares and the site doesn't want to lose members, but by the same token YOU can do whatever you want.

While Cloudflare can have issues (especially in some areas), can you offer up a better solution for protection against the sorts of attacks they can?? If so, I'm certain Jeremy would love to hear about it.
 
Old 09-08-2023, 01:35 PM   #6
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Be thankful it is not Google. It is "free" for webmasters by Google, which means such a predatory data collection giant gets something else out of it. Considering there is now plenty of computing power to track every single individual on this planet, add Google ability with 99.999% probability to identify the person who is using the browser and clicking on their CAPTCHA you can bet your belly button they record it in your personal file along with everything else they have collected on you. Pay attention, by solving CAPTCHA you are agreeing with Google terms and conditions, in other words, you authorize them to spy on you.

Not sure what Cloudfare gets out of it. (I did extensive research on Google, fraction of what I learned about them is above.)
 
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Old 09-13-2023, 06:58 PM   #7
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Centralized Control of the Internet​
had me think of this: https://snowflake.torproject.org/

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Cloudflare has said it has a content neutrality policy and that it opposes the policing of its customers on free speech grounds, except in cases where the customers break the law.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfla...-on-the-house/

In America even corporate lawyers have the freedom not to use it?!. ����
 
Old 09-14-2023, 09:06 PM   #8
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sometimes I forget to disable my script blocker before* uploading an image or changing a blog entry then cloudflare won't let me through
 
  


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