[valand]

At this point --- and speaking for non power-user --- this should be an OS interaction design problem.

Framing cloudflare as the enabler is missing the bigger picture.

I remember back in the day I needed to turn off autoplay on Windows to not get accidentally infected by malicious drives.

No one was insane enough to blame the CD-RW and flash drive manufacturers.

[autoexec]

> No one was insane enough to blame the CD-RW and flash drive manufacturers.

cloudflare isn't acting like a CD-RW or a flash drive. They're acting like a storefront that sells fraudulent flash drives that say they're 1TB when they're actually 200MB, or don't work at all when you plug it in, or worse catch fire. A storefront that refuses to take the faulty products off the shelves when customers complain, refuses to stop selling merchandise they sourced from criminals, and refuses to do even basic due diligence to make sure the products they sell are legitimate.

People who operate stores have a responsibility to make sure that merchandise they sell to consumers isn't fraudulent and harmful. Companies offering their services online also have a responsibility to make sure that those services aren't being used to push fraudulent and harmful content onto consumers and that they aren't acting as safe-havens for criminals.

[Dylan16807]

A file host is one or two orders of magnitude less involved than a store that stocks and sells products.

And if anything a file proxy is even further away.

[valand]

Aside from process host and protocol, what makes it different from, let's say publicly available google drive?