[tomudding]

Cloudflare caches robots.txt by default when proxied (the only .txt-file that they automatically cache), for all other content the following from their ToS probably applies:

> Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service.

We will never know the reasoning of the support agent who replied to the EasyList maintainers, but I can imagine that it is indeed disproportionate for EasyList.

I really hope that Cloudflare actually sees that they are making a wrong decision here and actually help the EasyList maintainers.

[tyingq]

The TOS isn't that you can't serve plain text, it's that it shouldn't be disproportionate in volume to the cached html served.

[unknownaccount]

That could be solved by tacking on 2x the file size worth of pointless html code to the file.

[thaumasiotes]

What's the difficulty supposed to be? Serve the same thing with a different MIME type and you're in compliance.