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Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by dghlsakjg » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:23 AM UTC

rickcarlino wrote: post #45

Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.

Unzip it.

Double click the html file.

The OS will run the web app using a browser that is just part of the OS.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by rickcarlino » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC

dghlsakjg wrote: post #161

rickcarlino wrote: post #45

Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.

Unzip it. Double click the html file. The OS will run the web app using a browser that is just part of the OS.

You have clearly never actually tried that.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#163

Post by asasidh » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:33 AM UTC

I think this is great. As usual the reaction from HN folks is on brand.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#164

Post by luciana1u » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:35 AM UTC

Cloudflare Drop: finally, a domain registrar that understands the real use case is buying 47 domains at 3am and never deploying anything to any of them

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#165

Post by colechristensen » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:41 AM UTC

Bender wrote: post #137

busymom0 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least when it comes to bad types of porn, it's be similar to Imgur allowing anonymous uploads. They already do CSAM scanning on uploads to their R2 storage: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-simpler-path-to-a-safer-intern...

That makes sense. In that case I have to assume that Cloudflare will not permit encrypted archive files as one can hide the image fingerprints all together.

Cloudflare in particular has an enormous fingerprint of your online activities.

Attempting to distribute/acquire illegal things through Cloudflare is an exercise in how to get caught.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by 3997531578 » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:44 AM UTC

stackghost wrote: post #153

gonzalohm wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by bart3r » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:47 AM UTC

So, if I need a company website, can i do the following:

- drop my html into Cloudflare drop

- setup a CNAME DNS for my domain to point at cloudflare URL

- profit

?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by simultsop » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:49 AM UTC

ComplexSystems wrote: post #160

0xcafefood wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Who, exactly, should help people host a website?

Best case: themselves. Since we are not there yet, reliable services.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by Bender » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:50 AM UTC

colechristensen wrote: post #165

Bender wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes sense. In that case I have to assume that Cloudflare will not permit encrypted archive files as one can hide the image fingerprints all together.

Cloudflare in particular has an enormous fingerprint of your online activities. Attempting to distribute/acquire illegal things through Cloudflare is an exercise in how to get caught.

True, though they front-end 4chan which have drawn/AI kiddo material which is a no-no in the US of A which makes it difficult for me to use as my primary news site and for obtaining medical advice.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by simultsop » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:52 AM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #49

simultsop wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know your experience. Once I was toying around and doing a basic auth with registration and so. The weekend was over and couldn't get back to that couple of months. The worker was quarantined and marked as phishing automatically. So I believe they have something in place to prevent those you complain.

Your anecdote just illustrates that their system detects legit uses as abuses, not that they have a system that effectively detects abuses.

But it is not that they have nothing. It was my laziness that I could not setup dev prod env's. When you develop on preview, I don't think they will do much.