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Buge | 3 months ago

Are you saying that cloudflare conducts or promotes DDoS?

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gruez|3 months ago

The accusation is that cloudflare also refuses to take down ddos for hire sites, which some interpret as them at least condoning such sites, and they benefit from those sites being up because it makes their services necessary. The counterargument to this is that cloudflare doesn't host any content and therefore shouldn't be subject to takedown requests, similar to how you wouldn't send takedown requests to Lumen Technologies (a tier 1 transit provider) because they provide transit to some VPS provider that ultimately hosts the ddos for hire site.

pcthrowaway|3 months ago

> cloudflare doesn't host any content

They do, they've been a CDN as long as they've been DDoS protection. But they definitely do DDoS protection for a much greater portion of the internet than they host.

pigggg|3 months ago

Most of the ddos as a service booter/stresser websites and front doors are on cloudflare.