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mtrovo ◴[] 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. maxwellg ◴[] No.45057608[source]
Cloudflare is only the first to market with a solution. If this proposal catches on every WAF vendor under the sun will have it implemented before the next sales cycle. Enforcement of this standard will be commoditized down to nothing.