Why blame Cloudflare though? Make your own service or push other companies to offer their services for free like Cloudflare. If Cloudflare is “fucked” like you want to, do you think the web will become more free? No, those 20% of the web will either be gone(because it’s not free anymore), or will move to those really big corps that own the other 80% of the web.

Can’t you just use vpn?

Wasn’t Microsoft in a bad state during Balmer and it took Nadella to change focus from Microsoft developed products to cloud and selling Linux that saved it?

they’d prefer to stay out of content moderation completely rather than try to find and boot all the Nazis

With how loose this word(and others) is used nowadays by people from Israel, USA, Russia, Africa and maybe other countries I prefer Cloudflare to stay that way.

I can explain. Cloudflare does not block VPNs, some website owners choose to block VPNs using Cloudflare services.

Cloudflare itself is very open to VPNs, like you can use their free services to proxy your VPN over their network bypassing country providers blocking. You’ll have to pay a lot for such service in Amazon or Azure.

So their business model is that poor people can receive cool services for free providing marketing for their business clients to pay for even better services. And they do provide cool services for free and even better services for reasonable payments.

Closed web means Google, Amazon and Azure own their business and the web. They don’t want that neither in business sense nor in moral sense.

Edit. I’d like to emphasise that Cloudflare is the only CDN that provides their basic services for free to common people, making the web available to common people, making the web more free.

I’ve seen a couple of threads here where people shit on Cloudflare(including this one). They are stupid, don’t know how the web works and are out of their minds.

So some of the gentry is not so landed anymore?

You are probably right, I assumed he was European since Proton is based in there.

he is symapthic to the right wing narative at a time where any sane person shouldnt have been

He’s not American though, things have nuances out of your tribal system.

I’m not a regular viewer, so I can’t know if there was or wasn’t a drop of quality at an unspecified time. If there was, hope they got better.

Can you give an example for me to better understand your claim?

What is it you don’t like about Veritasium lately?

I’m all for fuck the US but don’t you think Canada can make it’s own cars? Being dependent on China’s economy is no better than being dependent on the US or Europe.

I don’t think it’s illegal in China, they also don’t blanket ban vpns.

They are not the first country to ban vpns, those bans usually target 95% of individuals who are bad at tech not encrypted communications as a whole. Though I can see Britain ignoring that experience and just shooting itself in the face.

They probably know and don’t care because more than 99.99% won’t do it.

Oh, well, it’s okay if it suits for you. Just not at all an alternative to cloudflare.

Can you explain please? How can I use archive.org as a cdn for my website?

Cloudflare doesn’t distinguish these things

It does.

You just make useragent like “AI bot request initiated by user” and the website owners will decide for themselves to allow your traffic or not.

If your bot pretends to not be a bot, it should be blocked.

Edit. Btw Openai does this.

That would be terrible for a lot of people as they are the only company providing such services that doesn’t charge for traffic.

Try lowering MTU, just don’t lower it too much.