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81 points ananddtyagi | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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realityfactchex ◴[28 Aug 25 20:52 UTC] No.45056907[source]▶
No offense, but screw CloudFlare, screw their captchas for humans, and screw their wedging themselves between web operators and web users.

They can offer what they want for bots. But stop ruining the experience for humans first.

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tick_tock_tick ◴[28 Aug 25 21:29 UTC] No.45057258[source]▶
> screw their wedging themselves between web operators and web users

Web operators choose to use them; hell they even pay Cloudflare to be between them. Seriously I just think you don't understand how bad it is to run a site without someone in-front of it.

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1. mcspiff ◴[28 Aug 25 22:55 UTC] No.45057963[source]▶
Couldn’t agree more — Much like running my own DNS or email server, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to running my own website directly on the internet. It’s just not worth the hassle. For stuff only I use, it sits behind my VPN. For anything that _must_ be public, it’s going behind a WAF someone else can run.