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tonyhart7yesterday at 10:55 AM1 replyview on HN

"Don't forget that cloudflare provides service to the very botnets and flooders/booters they purport to protect against."

and where is the evidence???


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m3047yesterday at 5:25 PM

Cloudflare (it was news to me! why are CF assets actively reaching out to my infrastructure since I'm not a customer?) provides anonymization infrastructure to alleged VPN users. A data point. Doesn't mean they don't make an effort to screen abuse, but it's an open question (based on traffic to my site) how good that is. I'm also not convinced I should believe they don't use that traffic for their own purposes because "Simon says so".