Yeah this will have absolutely no impact to gathering training data.
I assumed it was to block ai agents crawling it during requests, which they’d be unlikely to bypass in the web ui.
But no company spending millions on training will hesitate to have an agent appear as a regular desktop user to scrape data.
orclev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problem is that the biggest service Cloudflare provides is DDoS protection, and doing that requires that you have more bandwidth available than your attacker. Having enough bandwidth to withstand modern botnet powered DDoS attacks is ridiculously expensive (and it’s also a finite resource, there’s only so much backbone infrastructure). Basically it’s economically infeasible to have multiple companies providing the service Cloudflare does. You might be able to get away with two companies doing so, but it’s unlikely you could manage more than that without some of them starting to go bankrupt.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
when a critical service is not economical for more than one business to do (natural monopoly), that’s when govt should be stepping in.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Which govt? I’m not comfortable with the idea of the current US govt having control over this sort of service.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
are you comfortable with a single corporation having control over this sort of service?
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wonder if it would be a good investment for a country to have their own then down the line expand to sell the same service to others
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s OurFlare, comrade.