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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.

I did it this week. MacOS, but it would have worked on Windows or Linux. Double click any HTML file in any of those and it will open in a browser

Will it work for every bloated react app? no.

Will it work if you intentionally put the slightest amount of thought into the design? yes.

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You have clearly never actually tried that.

I did it this week. MacOS, but it would have worked on Windows or Linux. Double click any HTML file in any of those and it will open in a browser Will it work for every bloated react app? no. Will it work if you intentionally put the slightest amount of thought into the design? yes.

It will work for documents and the most simple TODO apps. It actually will not work for anything useful. There are a number of security policies in place explicitly to prevent things in file:// from accessing features available over real HTTPS. You will not have access to anything that requires a network connection, local storage, location services, WebRTC, etc. This is why things like Electron exist and why experiments like Active Desktop, HTA, the thing linked to in this article, that other project that had the same name as this one, and Adobe AIR were tried.

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Does 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…

People are losing the ability to read. Lots of high schoolers are incapable of reading properly already. Attention spans shrink. We got some fun times ahead of us. We need these legal texts as short form TikTok content I am afraid.

We need the polar opposite of that: Laws that ensure companies can’t put unreasonable clauses in fine print or long EULAs. That’s the way it works in many EU countries, and it’s a blessing.

Nobody except lawyers should have to bother with legalese.

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Congratulations on launching! I tried uploading a git repository that I have previously successfully published on Github pages. This is a "no build" website I have built with the help of Claude. It should just work but I keep getting an error. Who can I reach out to give them steps to reproduce? The website repository is public and I feel like anyone at Cloudflare who wants to reproduce my problem can quite literally…

Hey stranger, welcome to 2026. It’s somewhat different to what you’re used to in 2035. We do things differently here.

I copied the folder to a new folder without the `.git` folder and that deployed just fine. Thank you to everyone who helped me.

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Here, drop all your data into this vortex -- we need it for our next web site builder AI model.

Yes, but this is the perfect circle of slop: generate an ai landing page, throw it into cloudflare drop, ai adopts it, start all over again. For genuine, professional content, I would assume, almost no one uses cloudflare drop, as they already have something in place to test and quickly host some page. Moreover, I expect that scammers and phishing campaigns will have a use for it to quickly up some landing page witho…

It's not like every SaaS wasn't using the same style of landing page before AI.

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post #293

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People are losing the ability to read. Lots of high schoolers are incapable of reading properly already. Attention spans shrink. We got some fun times ahead of us. We need these legal texts as short form TikTok content I am afraid.

We need the polar opposite of that: Laws that ensure companies can’t put unreasonable clauses in fine print or long EULAs. That’s the way it works in many EU countries, and it’s a blessing. Nobody except lawyers should have to bother with legalese.

That would require you to consult a lawyer for everything you do... I personally couldn't afford that.

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Does 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…

Have you read the fine print for other platforms?

This is standard boilerplate for hosting companies so they don't run into issues putting your content on distributed CDNs, or if things are in their logs, etc.

https://vercel.com/legal/terms#feedback

https://fly.io/legal/terms-of-service/#2-ownership

https://www.netlify.com/legal/terms-of-use/#3-your-content

I want to be mad at Cloudflare as much as the next person, but Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io all have the same "legal-ese". I don't agree with it and it feels overly broad, but it seems hosting companies, at least US based ones, all have this same standard boilerplate around your content.

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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...

Are you talking about: > The suspects subscribed to 40 Korean cable TV service accounts, re-broadcasting content to Indonesia and offering video-on-demand (VOD) services through customized TV boxes, applications, and web browsers.

Sure, that is a case, but I mainly wanted to quote INTERPOL (the international police):

> Criminals behind pirate sites can be part of organized crime groups. They can use the proceeds to fund other illegal activities, such as illegal online gambling, online sexual exploitation, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering.

Another notable example would be Operation KRATOS 2 by EUROPOL[1]. The case was roughly the same — crime organization pirating video content. IPTV piracy is certainly a lucrative business, because videos are relatively more difficult to handle for normal people.

[1]: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/29-a...

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Does 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…

Wow, that's awful! Considering how incredibly easy they open anyone up to uploading sensitive content, it's ridiculously unsafe to have open like that. I only saw the home page, and clicked the buttons to see what they asked for. Absolutely not! I won't even attempt a simple hello.txt file. This is some dark pattern stuff. Plus AI, I reject it all.

You are now making me rethink using any of Cloudflare's tech. I need to go and read the fine print for their DNS (1.1.1.1). I also wonder what their Turnstile conditions are being imposed on all of us.

That sort of condition is disgusting.

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