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by ethotool 1386 days ago
Everyone wants to bully and pick on Cloudflare now because it’s the cool thing to do I guess.

The issue is not Cloudflare — it’s just the sad reality of the Internet in 2022.

Imagine a criminal pumps a full tank of gas into his vehicle and then uses that vehicle to commit crimes. Nobody goes out and blames the gas station or holds them accountable.

The owner of the vehicle should and would be held accountable in real life. And in any case related to the Internet or Cloudflare, the owner of the website should be held accountable.

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> Nobody goes out and blames the gas station or holds them accountable.

If the gas station operator knows the criminal's identity and hides it, I'm pretty sure everyone would go after the gas station.

DDOS-protection is one of Cloudflare's services. The other one is hiding where you host your stuff, so people cannot contact your host to have them shut down the illegal operation.