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by fch42 682 days ago
They should act (on malware et al.) when people report it, https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/

That said, they're also using the "utility argument" - just as your phone provider won't screen you at every call you make, your electricity provider won't lock your supply until you authenticate use for non-nefarious purposes , your ISP won't content-filter, Cloudflare also says they won't police per-use other than when under explicit legal mandate (court injunctions). That's fair enough, at least to me.

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Sure, but in this instance, they're offering an anonymous service. Just require a sign-up and a captcha, like you do for all of your other products, FFS. Are they on drugs? Do they want more botnets, to drive DoS mitigation sales?