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by Dylan16807 31 days ago
The better solution to blocking entire continents is probably doing nothing.

For DDoS resistance... Well I can imagine a world where a tech in the same area as IPFS or freenet gives backup access to websites that are overloaded.

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> For DDoS resistance... Well I can imagine a world where a tech in the same area as IPFS or freenet gives backup access to websites that are overloaded.

As a small website owner, I can use Cloudflare or I can wait for this imagined tech.

You can use CF and lose relevance. Or even go beyond that and outright geoip-block .

Ofc it's your choice.

For some reason there are many small sites I have no problem visiting and then there are those CF users which may or may not work at any given moment, forcing me to ignore them.

Well, good luck. You are cutting yourself from the internet, not cutting me off.

You can use CF and lose, say, 10% of your audience (number pulled from thin air). Or you can not use CF, be taken down by scraping bots or a dos attack or whatever and lose 100% of your audience.
> tech in the same area as IPFS or freenet

Are we getting that before or after personal jet packs, flying cars, and my tacos delivered via tacocopters?

I'll protect my sites with Cloudflare until then, thanks.

Go ahead, just don't set up enormous IP blacklists on cloudflare please
Would IPFS need to be a part of the browser? Or is there an easy to use browser out there that runs on IPFS? If you need the average user to go find proxys, it won't work.