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by Run_DOS_Run 1303 days ago
CloudFlare again.. Offering their service to crime forums, credit card fraud shops and phishing websites, while making usage of Tor and VPNs nearly impossible or atleast a pain.

Coupled with the hypocrisy of an open web and freedom of speech, it makes CloudFlare arguably one of the worst threats to the web as we know it.

Whereas the freedom of speech ala Cloudflare stops as soon as it can generate cheap PR, because then a website is quickly blocked after a few media reports.. or in case of Piped as soon as the content mafia is complaining.

1 comments

There is nothing in Cloudflare that blocks anything like that by default. Site owners decides what to block. The problem with VPNs and TOR is that there is a lot of rouge traffic from these services. Also, there is no feature that blocks VPNs in CF. Some get blocked for not coming from consuming ISPs but more commonly whole ASNs are blocked if the majority of the traffic is bad.
rogue traffic, unless you mean pink powder