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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: 0.206s | source
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jjangkke ◴[29 Aug 25 16:48 UTC] No.45066437[source]▶
I would love to get off Cloudflare but there are no real good alternatives
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bob1029 ◴[29 Aug 25 16:58 UTC] No.45066577[source]▶
Writing backends that can actually handle public traffic and using authentication for expensive resources are fantastic alternatives.

Also, cheaply rate limiting malicious web clients should be something that is trivial to accomplish with competent web tooling (i.e., on your own servers). If this seems out of scope or infeasible, you might be using the wrong tools for the job.

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Symbiote ◴[29 Aug 25 20:27 UTC] No.45069003[source]▶
If it were this easy, we wouldn't have had about 10 HN posts on the topic in the last few months.
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1. hdgvhicv ◴[30 Aug 25 09:36 UTC] No.45073286[source]▶
The technical skills of the majority of the HN community are way below those of the typical computing community a generation ago.