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cloudfare bad (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 69 points 3 years ago (13 children)

O.o Do you understand what Cloudflare actually does?

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  • [+] [S] -59 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Provides a single point of failure for a large portion of the internet that nobody else has any control over?

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Using cloudflare is more reliable than using your own stuff which is still an option that nobody chooses anymore because it's better to choose cloudflare or something similar.

    I'm going to go ahead and assume you don't work with internet security in any way, have no experience in web development, and have never attempted to provide web application services to more people than you can count on your fingers, but if you had, cloudflare is mana from heaven.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So no, then.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Well no but I heard other people say it's bad and give some half reasons why. Why do I need to understand the tech if I just want to be mad about it? /s

    Fr though cloudflare is a giant, but they give some hardcore protections to little guys like me. If they ever were bad to me I'd switch to akamai or something. Plus if we're going to talk about monopolizing the web let's talk about Google, Azure, and AWS.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    While that can indeed be considered an issue, the idea that this somehow makes the internet objectively worse is debatable.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    there is no debate i am always correct :)

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