Cloudflare is shit.
They're a diabolic extractive, toxic and anti-user megacorpo, they sell our metadata and telemetry, they censor us and can arbitrarily impose arbitrary terms or actions on users, terminates TLS when the data gets to their server, thus the data is decrypted when traveling from Cloudflare's server to the requested host or direction, and when acting as a CDN or security layer, they're actually a MITM intercepting and deciphering all the HTTPS traffic, then arbitrarily inspecting it in opaque ways.
I don't even know why or how so many people choose to believe them, even lots of "privacy concerned" users and "privacy-friendly" tools like if Cloudflare were any privacy-friendly at all.
If you're supposedly privacy concerned and/or privacy-friendly, but keep using Cloudflare software and services, then you don't care about privacy at all.
Looking through the list it sounds like folks are simultaneously upset that they have a non-interventionist policy and also that they do intervene in extreme cases.
Not an enviable position. I guess the answer is to strictly define and follow a policy setting when a situation escalates to the point they will intervene.
What the fuck? This is a reoccurring thing where Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is niche enough towards a basic level of tech literacy and knowledge where comments like this just shouldn't be possible but comments like yours are oddly common. I've realised many who are here haven't found it via being sick of the enshittifying of the main stream internet but you're here because you were probably banned everywhere else, it's the only thing that makes sense.
There's just no way you're completely ignorant about this while somehow having the intelligence and knowledge to be here.
Every time I see a comment like yours here I just go "oh no, this person must be real fucked to have been forced to find this place because everywhere else has banned them."
I was working in Albany at the time. I was reaaaally hoping it wasn't going to cause...well, the way the world ended up. The terrorists won beyond their wildest dreams.
Ironically, the terrorists lost on all their goals. Al-Qaeda wanted to scare the US out of the Middle East, instead they destroyed the US but made them more interventionist than any time since the beginning of the Cold War.
It's so weird that terrorism mainly strengthens authoritarian regimes rather than bringing them down. But of course there's no reason at all to suspect that's their real goal.
I lived in Cleveland at the time. They evacuated Terminal Tower (the tallest skyscraper in Cleveland) in case the terrorists got so fucking far down the target list that they had to attack Cleveland.
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antonim@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 15d
based on the classic
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 22 pts · 15d
404 tower not found
craigers@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 14d
Never 404get
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 55 pts · 15d
Fuck every instance that uses cloudfare. Even mine.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 15d
Wait, what’s wrong with cloudflare?
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 15d
You mean besides the obvious problem with allowing one company to operate as a gatekeeper for a significant portion of the internet?
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 8 pts · 14d
Cloudflare is shit. They're a diabolic extractive, toxic and anti-user megacorpo, they sell our metadata and telemetry, they censor us and can arbitrarily impose arbitrary terms or actions on users, terminates TLS when the data gets to their server, thus the data is decrypted when traveling from Cloudflare's server to the requested host or direction, and when acting as a CDN or security layer, they're actually a MITM intercepting and deciphering all the HTTPS traffic, then arbitrarily inspecting it in opaque ways.
I don't even know why or how so many people choose to believe them, even lots of "privacy concerned" users and "privacy-friendly" tools like if Cloudflare were any privacy-friendly at all.
If you're supposedly privacy concerned and/or privacy-friendly, but keep using Cloudflare software and services, then you don't care about privacy at all.
razen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
Then what is the alternative to protect from ddos attacks?
The free version is very generous, I dont see a better/equal alternative to it.
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 14d
Anubis from Techaro, for example. It offers protection against DDoS, against bots, against scrapers and against AI.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 40 pts · 15d
The cloudfare captcha is the reason you can't see any image from lemmy.zip.
lime@feddit.nu · 22 pts · 15d
ho boy
ccunning@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 15d
Looking through the list it sounds like folks are simultaneously upset that they have a non-interventionist policy and also that they do intervene in extreme cases.
Not an enviable position. I guess the answer is to strictly define and follow a policy setting when a situation escalates to the point they will intervene.
FishFace@piefed.social · 15 pts · 15d
People think that if Cloudflare caved and started removing content, it'd be the right wing stuff and not the LGBT stuff, which seems preeetty naive.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 15d
Forces you to enable Javascript for websites that don't need it.
M137@lemmy.today · -7 pts · 14d
What the fuck? This is a reoccurring thing where Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is niche enough towards a basic level of tech literacy and knowledge where comments like this just shouldn't be possible but comments like yours are oddly common. I've realised many who are here haven't found it via being sick of the enshittifying of the main stream internet but you're here because you were probably banned everywhere else, it's the only thing that makes sense.
There's just no way you're completely ignorant about this while somehow having the intelligence and knowledge to be here.
Every time I see a comment like yours here I just go "oh no, this person must be real fucked to have been forced to find this place because everywhere else has banned them."
Varpeggio@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 14d
Is this a copypasta? To be fair, you have to have an incredibly high IQ to understand Lemmy.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 15d
Even 100% of the internet?
restingOface@quokk.au · 22 pts · 15d
Especially 100% of the Internet.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 15d
Oops, just accidentally the whole Internet
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 15d
restingOface@quokk.au · 8 pts · 15d
Is it heavy?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
You ever type "Google" into Google?
AdamBomb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14d
What a silly question. The internet doesn’t weigh anything!
restingOface@quokk.au · 1 pts · 14d
We all have our blind spots!
craigers@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
If it is then it's expensive, put it back
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 14d
Oops, all the internet
SourDragon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
[insert joke about getting a virus or something]
girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 2 pts · 15d
Mine does not!
yesman@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 15d
Lemmy reminds me of 2001 because you get to watch the pictures load from the top down.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 15d
I was working in Albany at the time. I was reaaaally hoping it wasn't going to cause...well, the way the world ended up. The terrorists won beyond their wildest dreams.
marcos@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 15d
Ironically, the terrorists lost on all their goals. Al-Qaeda wanted to scare the US out of the Middle East, instead they destroyed the US but made them more interventionist than any time since the beginning of the Cold War.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d
It's so weird that terrorism mainly strengthens authoritarian regimes rather than bringing them down. But of course there's no reason at all to suspect that's their real goal.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14d
I lived in Cleveland at the time. They evacuated Terminal Tower (the tallest skyscraper in Cleveland) in case the terrorists got so fucking far down the target list that they had to attack Cleveland.
updn@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 15d
Problem voting, please try again!
Why is this place like this?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 14d
Post not found.
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 15d
If you're using Android, I can highly recommend using Summit for Lemmy.
God knows what dark magic those bastards harnessed but it works so well!
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 15d
all the coolest homies "fail to grab this image"
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 15d
Wasn’t it the Spider-Man movie that came out around that time that edited the towers out and rereleased it?
Starfuckers_inc@lemmy.4d2.org · 5 pts · 14d
It was the Sam raimi Spiderman 1 film, if I remember correctly, it was a trailer that had to be retouched as the movie was released in 2002
adarza@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 14d
they also had to go back and reshoot some, as filming in new york had concluded months earlier.
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d
Someone repost the “use the boost to get through” meme please, I’m begging
Hello_there@fedia.io · 5 pts · 15d
I open original instance and that works
cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
OG right here
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 15d
ah yes, the deleted Lilo and Stitch scene.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 15d
Funny enough I don't know if a picture has ever failed to load for me on Piefed, because if it did there wouldn't even be a space rendered for it.