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Huh?

"All Cloudflare plans offer unlimited and unmetered mitigation of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, regardless of the size of the attack, at no extra cost."

https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

Do you know of an example of an attacker "easily demolishing" Cloudflare's free DDoS protection for a website with a few hundred dollars worth of botnet?

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> Do you know of an example of an attacker "easily demolishing" Cloudflare's free DDoS protection

I can name dozens of websites, that folded under Cloudflare's supposedly flawless DDoS protection (at the time when they were still using it). Of course, the ones who fold are always websites themselves — Cloudflare itself is never affected, because when the DDoS gets particularly bad, they just detach websites from their CDN and expose it to attackers.

...so name them?

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