"From time to time, I consider shielding my website with Cloudflare's services. I resist the temptation, because I strongly suspect that, despite Cloudflare's current good intentions, in the long-run, this is playing into the hands of the corporate-controlled web. Relying on commercial web services limits the freedom we have as personal website owners. Once they have us relying on them, we are forced to play by their rules, and at that point the battle is over. We may not have realized it yet, but we have been captured. Unless we manage to free ourselves, in a short time, we will be working for the enemy. [...]"
Just right within the last few days Cloudflare's DDoS protection has started blocking older and/or niche browsers, so all I can say about them is #*'@~?!§%$§#@!!
While that may very well be true, it's also wildly impractical. I would imagine the outcome of that stance will be the skeleton meme "still waiting and google still DDoSes my site."
rikroots|3 years ago
"From time to time, I consider shielding my website with Cloudflare's services. I resist the temptation, because I strongly suspect that, despite Cloudflare's current good intentions, in the long-run, this is playing into the hands of the corporate-controlled web. Relying on commercial web services limits the freedom we have as personal website owners. Once they have us relying on them, we are forced to play by their rules, and at that point the battle is over. We may not have realized it yet, but we have been captured. Unless we manage to free ourselves, in a short time, we will be working for the enemy. [...]"
iggldiggl|3 years ago
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