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derektanktoday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content. From elsewhere in their documentation, “Cloudflare limits how quickly you can create temporary preview accounts. If the Wrangler CLI cannot create an account because too many temporary preview accounts were requested too quickly, wait before retrying or authenticate the CLI with a permanent Cloudflare account,” and “Cloudflare applies additional abuse prevention checks to temporary preview accounts.”[1] This is a bit vague though. Creating a new account has never been a huge hurdle to overcome but this seems to reduce the barrier to entry even more.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/claim-dep...


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rdtsctoday at 3:18 PM

> Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content

If it helps laugh DDoS attacks they would be incentivized to do the exact opposite. They can charge more for “protection” then.