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Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by gonzalohm »

stackghost wrote: post #146
esjeon wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy . Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors. Now tell me what is cool

>Now tell me what is cool Piracy is cool. Information wants to be free. I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.

What about centralizing the internet like Cloudfare is doing? Once corporate greed starts creeping we will find ourselves on the verge of pay per visit a website

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by esjeon »

x-complexity wrote: post #136
esjeon wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy . Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors. Now tell me what is cool

> Now tell me what is cool Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker. The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.

A dirty secret is that piracy is being abused by criminal organizations[1]. When people unknowingly access such sites to see contents for free, it generate ad revenue for those organizations, which can fund other crimes.

[1]: https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Illicit-goods/Projects/Pr...

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by stackghost »

gonzalohm wrote: post #151
stackghost wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Now tell me what is cool Piracy is cool. Information wants to be free. I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.

What about centralizing the internet like Cloudfare is doing? Once corporate greed starts creeping we will find ourselves on the verge of pay per visit a website

You mean centralizing the web? Doesn't bother me. Most of the web is a dumpster fire of AI slop anyway.

There's more to the Internet than the world wide web, though. NNTP and IRC communities remain vibrant, if diminished in size

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by lelandfe »

hoherd wrote: post #73
brightball wrote: post #17

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There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?

I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.

A term still used on Tahoe. Right click a file in Finder, Get Info. A file permissions option is "Write only (Drop Box)"

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by Nifty3929 »

arcatech wrote: post #104
jonluca wrote: post #42

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems? Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative

Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

Bender wrote: post #83
hoppp wrote: post #80

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They already allow hosting static websites so I think the same guardrails are implemented.

I've never used CF so I could be ignorant in this matter. I assumed perhaps incorrectly that people had to verify their email address and delegate their domain(s) to CF including setting the glue records in the TLD servers meaning there is possibly a financial trail somewhere probably in the DNS registrars and perhaps a mail provider , whereas this is just drag-and-drop with no money trail. I have no idea what guardr…

If you want your own domain you need to do a bunch of that but you can also host stuff on your own free subdomain of their workers.dev

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by ComplexSystems »

0xcafefood wrote: post #149
combyn8tor wrote: post #62

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Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

Why would Cloudflare do that? They shouldn't help bad actors.

Who, exactly, should help people host a website?
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