Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I’m 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It’s the fastest downhill I’ve noticed on here, and I’ve been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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    8 months ago

    Don’t believe anything advertised as unlimited , cause it isn’t, they always cover their asses in the fine prints in their TOS.

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    Yeah pretty much all red flags from cloud flare

    Can’t wait for this to become a louis rossman video

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    8 months ago

    Sounds like any Cloudflare customer should reconsider their hosting setup . Mark Anderson has decided to strip the customers to increase the bottom line… And once the numbers are up but the customers are gone… Will move on to the next company

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    Not a huge surprise, they’ve got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.

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    Multi CDN integration is a thing. And fuck CF. Unlimited means unlimited. Stop trying to lie to your customers and change the rules.

    If the IP’s were an issue, then they wouldn’t have offered to make the issue go away with $$$.

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      I mean more money would solve the IP issue.

      Step 1: Get more money Step 2: Buy additional dedicated IPs for the casino Step 3: Profit from the profits of a casino.

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    Right. And if you depend on them for your logic with cloudflare functions you will never be able to migrate to another CDN.

    Never let a vender do anything for you beyond standardized features. That’s why a “selling point” if we go with this guy we can do this… never makes sense. Because if option B can’t do it also you wouldn’t want to do “this”, and you should probably implement it in a more old-school way.

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    Yet more evidence that CloudFlare is inherently damaging and hostile to the Internet.

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    While I have been reading through this topic, I have been feeling worried since I was thinking about using Cloudflare to protect a site of mine for some time. This is because I found out from somewhere that they have protection against AI LLMs scraping page data from websites, which is what I’m mainly worried about since there are things and stories that I put a lot of thought and work into. And finding out about Cloudflare shutting someone else down here over what sounds like the level of traffic has me feeling I might not be able to use them and not sure what other options there are.

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      A simpler explanation is that users are tired of everybody with a customer support issue running to daddy HN and making a big fuss trying to get their way.

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        After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

        Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media — like that recent one with amazon aws.

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    I’d be interested to see if / how Cloudflare will respond to this. Because at this point I’m not 100 percent sure who is in the right.