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Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

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Re: Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

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Post by zbrozek »

totallymike wrote: post #4
CqtGLRGcukpy wrote: post #3

Non-cloudflare link that basically says the same thing: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117186158784673388

Why is cloudflare a problem?

Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.

Re: Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

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Post by esseph »

zbrozek wrote: post #5
totallymike wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is cloudflare a problem?

Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.

> Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.

Bots and scrapers and hackers also try and avoid being tracked, which is by far a bigger problem for them and most websites than the 15 of us using tons of antifingerprinting techniques. Evil? No, that's silly.

Re: Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

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Post by nickff »

zbrozek wrote: post #5
totallymike wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is cloudflare a problem?

Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.

It is very challenging to distinguish individuals interested in privacy from bots acting maliciously or with reckless indifference. If you devise a way to do this more effectively than Cloudflare, you should start a business to sell this as a service.
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