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I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…
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For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.
And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.
Dynamic sites still get cached.
Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.