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You're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully but it needs to be within the rules. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
We should be suggesting self hosted and decentralized solutions to website hosting and file hosting.
On that note, does anyone have any secure methods of providing serving a file from your computer to anyone with a phone/computer that doesn't require them downloading/installing something new? Just a password or something? Magic-wormhole almost seems great, but it requires the client to install wormhole (on a computer, not phone), and then type specific commands along with the password.
Is there a simple `iroh serve myfile.file` from server and then client goes to https://some.domain.iroh/a086c07f862bbe839c928fce8749 and types in a password/ticket you give them?
That would be wonderful.
That's just plain bs...
Eg
1) they have customers and their customers want protection, with minimal downsides.
2) Cloudflare is the only one with support for Tor. I'm 100% sure you didn't knew that.
What "examples" do you have to blame them for something they aren't doing? Based on what?
I'm getting tired of people blaming Cloudflare for providing a service that no one else can provide for free to small website owners => DDOS protection.
http://forums.accessroot.com/index.php?showtopic=4361&st=0
>Please wait while your request is being verified...
I can't remember any day I didn't get a Cloudflare block. Even on bare IP sometimes. WAFs are security theater.
Which circumvents the bad reputation of certain exit nodes:
> Due to the behavior of some individuals using the Tor network (spammers, distributors of malware, attackers), the IP addresses of Tor exit nodes may earn a bad reputation, elevating their Cloudflare threat score.
You're of course welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully while staying within the rules.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I reiterated over my last comments and they've been snarky lately.
Not an excuse, a lot is going on and overworked and without patience lately.
That shouldn't reflect in my comments and I'll pay more attention to it.
Have a good week.
It’s almost as if those saying contradictory things are actually different people despite being on the same website. But it can’t be that, surely? Truly a perplexing phenomenon that I hope someone can one day explain.
I suspect it's because hating on Google is in vogue, and so is recommending Cloudflare.
Probably not as cheap. AWS can put a WAF and CDN infront of your site too.
And migrating from one service to another isn't much more work than moving DNS records.
Just saying, it's not the same level of vendor lockin as using dynamodb or whatever.
I use Cloudflare (free tier) in front of the very few and almost entirely unused websites that I run. I believe that the service they provide is useful for protecting the IP addresses of the servers on which the content is hosted, whilst also providing some amount of protection from malicious traffic.
I also agree that centralisation of services is a big problem for the future of the internet.
My position is that, whilst there seem to be increasing voices / examples of Cloudflare's (potential in) acting against the nebulous notion of "spirit of the internet", for me they certainly haven't reached the "evil" stage. I'm also of the understanding that it's Cloudflare customers that choose to block access from Tor or VPS IP address ranges and / or add Captcha's or other bothersome verification. True Cloudflare enable it and make it possible, but the administrators of the website that you're trying to visit have made the choice to make it more difficult for you to access their content; not Cloudflare themselves.
I would prefer there to be similar-scale alternatives to Cloudflare as a kind of a middle-ground decentralisation of centralisation. I'm sure there are alternatives, but I'm not yet motivated enough to even consider starting the research process.
If Cloudflare start selling visitor analytics to data brokers, however, very fast goodbye.