They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?
What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.
They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?
What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.
Cloudflare is cool now, but what would happen 10 years from now when they get enshittified while handling majority of global web traffics? We would be truly fucked.
Yep, it’s never a case of “if”, only “when”
What would happen? Well, people would switch. It’s not like you’re entering a contract that forces you to host using CloudFlare.
I once bought a website that was on CloudFlare, few simple config changes later it’s running directly on a webserver.
Not so easy to switch it you’re balls deep into their products such as Worker, Zero Trust Network, Magic WAN, Stream, etc.
To be honest, you can say the same about any large cloud provider. What happens if AWS, or Azure, or Google Cloud go down, or become terrible?
Cloudflare has much more impact than other cloud vendors here simply because they MITM their customers by default. Combine that with ever increasing market share, cloudflare has the potential to tap into data not even Google analytics can collect because they’re able to see all unencrypted data following through their reverse proxy. If they decided to up their analytics game, you won’t be able to block their data collection with ublock origin.