[CuriouslyC]

I dislike how Cloudflare wants to do everything the Cloudflare way. A lot of their services are legit good and insanely cheap though, and containers have the potential to be a game changer that takes them from occasionally useful to the backbone of your cloud.

[jockm]

Help me understand your point better. How do you want the services to work? Is there some standard you are advocating for, or for them to mimic existing services, or what?

[doublerabbit]

By not harshly penalizing those who legitimately use VPN's, proxies?

I'm using FreeBSD - This is on the hit list

I'm using Waterfox - This is on the hit list

I'm using my colocated server for a VPN from a reputable provider - This is on the hit list

I eliminate the last two and suffer with my ADSL. My ADSL isn't a standard domestic provider so I'm hit with that too for using an alternative provider. I am still being penalized for using FreeBSD.

Every page I encounter that uses Cloudflare ends up with a captcha. Why isn't there a way to verify myself that I am an actual legit person? I've clicked the captcha enough times, why does it have to be every single time?

Why can't I whitelist my IP?

If this is truly the only way to restrict bad actors, then it's pathetic. Am I'm going to be hit for using Xorg and not Wayland in the future? Their "bot" protection technology is years out of date.

I don't like that Cloudflare has total control on how I can see the internet. I don't need any of their services, I don't want any of their services and others may praise them but to me not required.

This may of worked five years ago, but like cookie banners, it doesn't work now. Yet they wish to spin up new modern services and neglect the old that actually made Cloudflare and not some power-hungry MiTM service. That's what it feels like but not that they will listen. I hate the fact that any point they can just go full anal and force you to X.

The internet is suppose to have some sort of freedom, it's less than freedom. Using the internet now is like an animal in a cage. Heck, I would even register an account with Cloudflare if it allowed me to verify legitimacy.

[ranger_danger]

This is exactly my experience as well... I guess we are still technically such a tiny minority that it doesn't make business sense to try to support us.