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Totally, I don't like surprising behaviors either. At the time we made that decision the `CDN-Cache-Control` proposal didn't exist, so it was a tricky spot.

There also really wasn't a UI opportunity in this case (although one thing we thought about was a setting to control it and turn off the Vercel override).

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> There also really wasn't a UI opportunity in this case

Why, because the configuration is set in a text file and not in the UI?

You could send an automatic email to the account holder with the warning whenever someone adds a foot-gun cache-control setting, with the ability to turn off the email by setting a different configuration flag to true or by checking a flag in the UI.

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