CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
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Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#2I fully agree. It's not only the waste of time when you have to confirm you're a human (that adds up to multiple hours per month).
It's also the entire blockage of older or less mainstream systems that no longer can access, sometimes critical, websites at all when the Cloudflare check blocks things entirely because the "browser is out of date" or not on their whitelist. Therefore causing excessive discrimination of poorer folks that can't afford upgrading to never/ other systems that still are legible to pass Cloudflare's "grace".
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#3What, because it keeps breaking?
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#4This article is from 2016, and it should be noted that things have significantly increased since then. I no longer have to click traffic lights and motorcycles, I just have to wait a few seconds. I'm in Vietnam so my IP gets flagged for checks a lot, but they all pass automatically in a few seconds.
The only time I still get asked to click motorcycles is not Cloudflare, it's Google. They absolutely hate when you try to do a search in an incognito window and will give you an unpassable captcha until you give up and use DDG instead.
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#5(The author runs a small ISP in an unspecified country in SEA and complains about many CF captchas.)
This may be one reason:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q3/
Top 10 largest sources of DDoS attacks: 2025 Q3
1. Indonesia
2. Thailand
3. Bangladesh
Vietnam and Singapore also make it into the top 10. The latter is a bit of an outlier being rich and having a small population.
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#6(The author runs a small ISP in an unspecified country in SEA and complains about many CF captchas.) This may be one reason: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q3/ Top 10 largest sources of DDoS attacks: 2025 Q3 1. Indonesia 2. Thailand 3. Bangladesh Vietnam and Singapore also make it into the top 10. The latter is a bit of an outlier being rich and having a small population.
So, guilty by default, right?
We developed human rights and laws through centuries of debates, pain, suffer, revolutions, fights etc just to get mega-corps doing whatever they feel right, externalizing the trade-offs on innocent peoples.
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#7it's ruining the internet for everybody else
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Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#9OP didn’t put this in the title but the article is from 2016. Turns out a lot has changed in the last decade and I think it’s likely that the article should be updated on what it’s like right now.
Re: CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
#10I fully agree. It's not only the waste of time when you have to confirm you're a human (that adds up to multiple hours per month). It's also the entire blockage of older or less mainstream systems that no longer can access, sometimes critical, websites at all when the Cloudflare check blocks things entirely because the "browser is out of date" or not on their whitelist. Therefore causing excessive discrimination of p…
Without a market CloudFlare wouldn't be able to ruin the internet. You can thank all of the incessant AI bots for that. I can't even browse GitHub anymore without logging in.