I got shitlisted by cloudflare because I had a browser tab misbehaving that was infinitely reloading twitter once for god knows how long before I realized it.
I was blocked from like 99% of the internet for like 2 weeks. I couldn’t order food, I couldn’t visit any goddamn website pretty much, anything that required “human verification” blocked me instantly. it was a fucking nightmare.
and there is NO ONE you can reach out to either. they simply do not offer any path to speak to someone or submit a ticket or anything. you’re just insta-banned from the internet.
Matthew: Back in 2003, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot as an open-source project to track online fraud and abuse. The Project allowed anyone with a website to install a piece of code and track hackers and spammers.
We ran it as a hobby and didn’t think much about it until, in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security called and said, “Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?” That started us thinking about how we could effectively deploy the data from Project Honey Pot, as well as other sources, in order to protect websites online. That turned into the initial impetus for CloudFlare.
Way too much of the internet depends on Cloudflare, companies should really diversify the bot protection game.
I feel like programmers have just gotten bad. Everything works worse than it used to even with better hardware.
This might be controversial, but personally I blame capitalism.
I got shitlisted by cloudflare because I had a browser tab misbehaving that was infinitely reloading twitter once for god knows how long before I realized it.
I was blocked from like 99% of the internet for like 2 weeks. I couldn’t order food, I couldn’t visit any goddamn website pretty much, anything that required “human verification” blocked me instantly. it was a fucking nightmare.
and there is NO ONE you can reach out to either. they simply do not offer any path to speak to someone or submit a ticket or anything. you’re just insta-banned from the internet.
You already can pick a competitor.
cloudflare offers more things for free than anyone else can because they’re feds lol
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