Cloudflare Bans Sites for Using Cryptocurrency Miners

CloudFlare recently made news because they banned the rightwing extremist website Daily Stormer. Now it seems they are continueing the slippery slope that they decided to climb on by policing websites that use their proxy service for crypto currency mining.

They banned the site mentioned in the article without warning and deleted all the DNS settings. This is not how a serious infrastructure company should behave in my opinion.

My company has moved all domains off of CloudFlare about a year ago when they would silently drop requests and not log anything in the stats, no access to errorlogs (unless you are on the expensive enterprise plan). Some users were getting captchas while the analytics page said there were none from that country. We are not running anything even remotely questionable like torrent sites or anything political. But I'm pretty sure if we hadn't moved off of them already, this would be a time for us to consider it. It's not OK to claim you are a "dumb" pipe without control over a proxied sites content and police it at the same time.