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by judge2020 1596 days ago
> though I haven't heard of that being enforced in practice.

It happened here[0], and the reasoning for why they allow some free tier content is in their S-1[1]. Typically, even if you blatant file sharing or video streaming application in violation of 2.8, Cloudflare doesn't necessarily care as long as it's not too bandwidth intensive (eg. I wouldn't recommend having a dozen people streaming Plex from the outside internet).

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...

1: https://l.judge.sh/85EH

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Thanks for this. The thread is confusing because the user is quite upset and hostile and didn't seem to understand Cloudflare very well, but in the end this does indeed seem like a case of the site being shut down due to non-HTML ToS violation.