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• ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Normal users don't have these issues.

  That’s not true. Cloudflare impacts both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:

  • users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
  • the Tor community
  • VPN users
  • users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
  • privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
  • blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
  • the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
  • people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots

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  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good thing that they can just simply use another fucking instance thanks to federated systems.

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    • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not exactly. !showerthoughts was a poor choice, as is:

      • !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
      • !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
      • !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
      • !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
      • !showerthoughts ← not CF, but copious political baggage & centralized by disproportionate size

      They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on lemmy.world. !showerthoughts would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

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