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Comment by oefrha | Hacker News Reader

Wow, this is ridiculous. Sites that have been running on Cloudflare for a decade+ silently got the treatment. Why the hell was there never a big banner telling me about this? I frequently log into the console.

I get it that by being on the free plan (well I do pay for Registrar), I'm the product, but I also converted employers to paying customers of yours based on goodwill. This just destroyed about all of that, among other things. If I haven't given a damn about "powerful, in-depth monitoring solution that helps you debug and optimize applications" in over a decade, I certainly won't suddenly be "excited" about it when you sneakily inject it.

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You get something for free, they announce it and you complain about not having a bigger announcement?

If they had the banner and you missed it [or someone else] they would complain about the banner not being big enough.

> they announce it

Forgive me for not subscribing to their blog? That's not how you announce changes to customers.

Using a Level 7 CDN is based on trust. This is not a trustworthy action, period.

Protest RIGHT NOW, not by complaining here but by getting rid of Cloudflare

This is unacceptable

or... hear me out, do BOTH

It was on hacker news, back when they blogged it.

Nobody cared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291323

> The RUM Diaries: Enabling Web Analytics by Default

With that title not many people clicked on it. I'm not surprised.

Maybe you're right. The important thing is to remember this moment the next time you're signing up for a free product that seems just a little too good to be true.

If you're running infrastructure you care about, you really need to own the responsibility of keeping up to date with what you're supporting. Free or not.

I bet those decade+ sites have been silently upgraded to TLS 1.3 too! Where are the complaints for that?

On other forums than HN, but they surely do exist; check xda-developers, perhaps, for complaints from ancient Android users, as a theoretical sample of how to find them. Regardless, that’s one of the three certain customer outcomes when providing off-the-shelf services to human beings — free or not: it’s too expensive (in money and/or effort!), it doesn’t precisely fit their needs, and change is bad.

You can contract your comment to "I'm the product" and nothing would actually change.

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