Cloudflare gives me mixed feelings. The services are good and well priced. What bothers me is that they've become infrastructure nobody opted into - you don't have an account, you just pass through their network on the way to a large share of what you visit. They terminate TLS, so it's plaintext on their side.
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
It states more than just display: 'to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works'
Can this be a necessary legal framing for technical purposes, to allow converting of pictures to different resolutions, or adapt the content to mobile views, and such things?
I mean, even all else aside - why would they need a "perpetual, irrevocable" licence?
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#253Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…
No body is stealing your blog, relax its boiler plate
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
It states more than just display: 'to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works'
Can this be a necessary legal framing for technical purposes, to allow converting of pictures to different resolutions, or adapt the content to mobile views, and such things?
To me this looks like legal preparation for selling their users' datasets for AI training purposes.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
And to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.
In such situations, the golden mean is a useful lens.
The golden mean is only a useful lens if all sides are equally prepared to take up extremist positions. If some people are taking up considerate or even reasonable positions but others take up the absolute, the golden mean will always skew towards the unreasonable.
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#257Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop
But this time it's with ~blockchain~ AI!
Oh, how I miss the golden days of blockchain hype so much.
The luxury blockchain resort island is just soaking somewhere in the ocean, collecting dust and guano, while its former inhabitants are all the rage about AI now :'(
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can this be a necessary legal framing for technical purposes, to allow converting of pictures to different resolutions, or adapt the content to mobile views, and such things?
To me this looks like legal preparation for selling their users' datasets for AI training purposes.
Basically the same phrasing was widespread before LLMs were invented. So I don't think it's specifically motivated by that.
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#259So, 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 ?
No, a CNAME can only point to a host name, not a URL. So Cloudflare’s servers would need to know about, and be configured to serve the correct web page for, the “real” name from your side.
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#260Wow 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.
After my hoster started asking me for 700€ for a year of hosting a static website of like 100Mb i moved to CF worker and github. I would selfhost but thats not allowed without license