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by ShrigmaMale 997 days ago
stripe, cloudflare (ish), github
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Cloudflare's verify human challenge screen is so intrusive and frustrating that it will cost them their credibility IMHO, if it hasn't already. Some part of me feels that a properly designed cache should be able to handle any level of abusive traffic like a p2p cache would, and if it can't, then what are we all doing?
The problem is a cache needs cooperation with the backend for invalidation: Cloudflare’s robot check can apply to every page right before it talks to the backend at all
I wouldn’t put GitHub in the list: lots of people are annoyed that they use F/OSS code to train copilot.
> that are both profitable

none of these are currently profitable