alt Hacker Newshi y'all, ngrok creator/founder here.
we removed anonymous usage of our product many years ago because it was far and away the largest source of abuse on our entire platform.
i believe at this point that that anonymous, account-less tunneling services like this are net negative for the security of the internet
happy to answer any questions from the community
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opengrass • today at 10:04 PM
It's not a security issue, it's a liability issue!
jeremyjh • today at 9:34 PM
Would you ever ship a product where all the ad copy was written by an AI and read by no one?
The marketing from Cloudflare around this being for agents feels like the intended use case is for agents to exfiltrate data off your laptop without pesky hurdles like asking the user to set up an account first.