I love the tar pit idea, where they just generate AI slop to feed the crawler, but this is good too.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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One would be considered malicious, which I think is great, but others may not.
Good thing they MITM the traffic for easier access to the data themselves whether or not they block crawlers at the edge ;)
you pay them specifically to MITM for your site, it's the entire point of Cloudflare!
can some1 point me to fuck_cloudflare?
Curious, I don’t understand the hate for Cloudflare
I mean theres a few reasons.
Theres what Richard Stallman says about CF
Also they dont seem to shut down sites that host large amounts of misinformation
Theres also the fact that CloudFlare is centralized, and when CF goes down, large portions of the internet goes down. The fact theyre a large US company that can see what anyone on the internet does on any of the many many websites they host (its something like 60% iirc)
A large portion of the reasons are in this article: https://expertbeacon.com/why-cloudflare-sucks-an-in-depth-look-at-the-perils-of-an-internet-giant/
Everything sucks, welcome to the real world!
So Stallman doesn’t like it because they don’t use open source JavaScript?
I don’t have a problem with Cloudflare not blocking sites based on their belief. When you do that is when you get shut like X where Elon Musk discriminates because you have a different opinion than him. At least Cloudflare just follows the laws and their own rules, instead of just acting as a force for changing the world how they see fit.
It's part of a lot of shit, so Cloudflare outages can be insanely disruptive. Last time there was one, members go their direct deposits late, which fucked over our poorer members who need the money ASAP.
What if I get identified as AI crawler. Will they lock me down from parts of their internet until I pay them ?
Yes, they should