TheCIAGlowsInTheDark
Hellovan Onion
Being fair here, Cloudflare sucks.most website operators don't have the whole world wanting them dead.
most people turn to cloudflare (free tier) account for ddos protection when it is a problem. there are other players in the market but youll be paying a few hundred a month for similar services
I'm in the camp where I think protection from DDoS attacks should be an open standard rather than something a single company can offer for the Internet.
Cloudflare shouldn't have a monopoly on anti-DDoSing services, they shouldn't be the only player offering encrypted proxies, they're complete pussies that bend the knee to other countries and they'll censor the Internet on their behalf, and seeing them crash causes half the Internet to get taken down because someone over at Cloudflare tripped on a wire (like what has happened today where a lot of websites crashed because Cloudflare crashed on their end).
It reminds me of what the late Steve Jobs said about Adobe Flash. I remember when he removed Flash from the original iPhone and a lot of people went up and arms over what he did because many still wanted to watch Youtube and such but most people back then never understood the big picture; Steve Jobs hated Flash because it was a bloated resource heavy application that had a lot of security holes and he believed that no single company should ever control a portion of the Internet. Steve Jobs would be proven right with the rise of HTML 5 (an open standard) replacing Flash to access most interactive content online thus creating a more secure Internet; he had the foresight to see how the Internet could be much better in the absence of Flash.
It's the same with Cloudflare. No single company should have a monopoly on website protection and this should be an open standard rather than a single private service offering proprietary protection tools to people. I already have my own objections towards Cloudflare as it is and seeing them take down half the Internet every time they crash shows me the Internet should move away from Cloudflare in favor of open standards now.
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