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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

what is HN? Edit: never mind, answered below: hacker news (ycombinator)
daaamn... I hated cloudflare before for their shitty and non-adblocker-compatible (often not working at all) "I am not a bot" checks, but fuck me are those EVIL motherfuckers....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

While I have been reading through this topic, I have been feeling worried since I was thinking about using Cloudflare to protect a site of mine for some time. This is because I found out from somewhere that they have protection against AI LLMs scraping page data from websites, which is what I'm mainly worried about since there are things and stories that I put a lot of thought and work into. And finding out about Cloudflare shutting someone else down here over what sounds like the level of traffic has me feeling I might not be able to use them and not sure what other options there are.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yet more evidence that CloudFlare is inherently damaging and hostile to the Internet.

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