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Seriously Cloudflare? A delayed generic signup modal on a forum while I'm trying to read a post?

https://imgur.com/a/QDEjlQ3

My reasons to dislike CF keep growing.

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Maybe I’m too used to those things, but I don’t find this to be a reason to dislike the company. It’s probably a simple checkbox in the admin panel, and it wasn’t given much thought.

You can also just close it without any issue.

But the login walls on insta and twitter on the other hand...

PS: I dislike CF for the captcha garbage when browsing the net from untrusted IPs or whatever their reasoning is. Also, being political as an infrastructure provider is a hot iron, I’d prefer total neutrality like I get from my ISP or even electricity provider. They don’t care what I do, as long as it’s legal.

It's a good sign non-designers/developers are making important UX decisions. ie, the people who use the internet enough to recognize the user-hostile patterns that only piss 1000x people off for every 1x sign up... if even.

CF seems more than willing to be hostile to users (and the internet in general) for business ends.

Cloudflare doesn't make good money on the vast majority of their self serve services, so user hostile behavior is not a net negative when it doesn't impact their individual custom basis contracted customers.

They are dominant in the market, so it's just a matter of time until they start abusing their position.

You're exaggerating.

yeah opened this in a new tab and by the time I opened it, it was just a popup on a black background. I nearly closed the page before realising it was an article I actually wanted to read.

From a third person perspective, maybe you already hate them for whatever(genuine) reason you may have and picking every small details possible to hate them?

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