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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

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454 points positiveblue | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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cyberlurker ◴[29 Aug 25 16:47 UTC] No.45066415[source]▶
I would love that vision to become reality but what Cloudflare is doing is unfortunately necessary atm.
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TheCraiggers ◴[29 Aug 25 16:53 UTC] No.45066504[source]▶
Ok, I'll bite. Why is turning the Internet into a walled garden necessary now?
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1. esseph ◴[29 Aug 25 17:16 UTC] No.45066804[source]▶
Commercial, criminal, and state interests have far more resources than you do, and their interests are in direct conflict with yours.

That would be fine, you could walk away and go home, but if you're going to drive on their digital highways, you're going to need "insurance" just protect you from everyone else.

Ongoing multi-nation WWIII-scale hacking and infiltration campaigns of infrastructure, AI bot crawling, search company and startup crawling, security researchers crawling, and maybe somebody doesn't like your blog and decides to rent a botnet for a week or so.

Bet your ISP shuts you off before then to protect themselves. (Happens all the time via BGP blackholing, DDoS scrubbing services, BGP FlowSpec, etc).