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81 points ananddtyagi | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | 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. specialp ◴[29 Aug 25 02:16 UTC] No.45059305[source]▶
I run a site that is a primary source of information. We also have customers that subscribe and are very sensitive to heavy handed controls. Before cloudflare and after "AI" we had bots from all over just destroying our endpoints with bursts of mining traffic. While we would love to have more discoverability this is not that. Cloudflare is in a tough spot trying to arbitrate good traffic vs bad. From my experience they are doing this as good as one can.