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Way too much of the internet is on cloudflare. They are and will continue to be the arbiters of speech on the internet. God forbid I browse the web with a vpn!

Yet they are the golden boy on HN.

Nobody should have that much power.

Sometimes I even get into infinite captcha loops without a vpn, even just on my phone. I LITERALLY cannot browse certain sites like wayfair because of cloudflare. I have done nothing wrong.

They are doing it for your security.

To be fair I’m never sure who is imposing the captcha s about things that are alien to my society (traffic lights hanging above lanes, yellow taxis, crossings without flashing amber lights), either cloudflare or google, but I’m certain it’s to continue the adtech economy.

>because the morons at netcraft told them it was a "phishing website"

How do you know they added a phishing warning because of something Netcraft told them?

cloudflare sent us an email:

    Cloudflare received a phishing report regarding:

    mycompany.com

    Below is the report we received:

    Reporter: Anonymous

    Reported URLs:
    http://www.mycompany.com/deadlink

    Logs or Evidence of Abuse: Hello,

    You are currently hosting a site which is associated with an ongoing 
    malware attack. The malware either communicates with, or is spread 
    directly by following malicious links:

    hxxp://www[.]mycompany[.]com/deadlink [1.2.3.4]

    Visit the report below to see details on one of the attachments 
    associated with this URL or IP address:

    https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/12345678/analysis/

    More information about the detected issue is provided at 
    https://incident.netcraft.com/1234/

    Would it be possible to have this URL taken down as soon as possible?

    Many thanks,

    Netcraft

    Phone: +44(0)1225 447500
    Netcraft Issue Number: 123456

(numbers removed to prevent doxxing)

So they asked you to take down a URL that didn’t exist?

the string they had discovered in the exe file had been dead for over 10 years

we redirect 404s back to the parent directory

cloudflare used that url on our own website to warn our customers we were "PHISHING!!"

redirecting 404 to the homepage is enough to be banned from the internet. (slightly /s)

also, you used cloudflare. meh.

Signing up to use any 'shields' without a written guarantee, such as compensation for erroneous 'shielding', was also a poor decision.

Back in the day my personal site was banned from cloudflares ddos shield for getting ddos'd. I'm not even sure what they actually do any more.