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81 points ananddtyagi | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mtrovo ◴[28 Aug 25 21:10 UTC] No.45057076[source]▶
As much as I understand this is needed it rubs me the wrong way.

The standard looks fine as a distributed protocol until you have to register to pay a rent to Cloudflare, which they say will eventually trickle down into publishers pocket but you know what having a middleman this powerful means to the power dynamics of the market. Publishers have a really bad hand no matter what we do to save them, content as we know it will have to adapt.

Give it a couple more iterations and some MBA will come up with the brilliant idea of introducing an internet toll to humans and selling a content bundle with unlimited access to websites.

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1. tick_tock_tick ◴[28 Aug 25 21:23 UTC] No.45057197[source]▶
There is just too much spam and it's not clear that is a solvable problem without Cloudflare (or some other similar service). Maybe if they get big enough the incentives to spam will vanish and non Cloudflare sites can exist in peace (at-least until enough people leave Cloudflare that spam become profitable again).