> Services like Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, Fastly, and Amazon CloudFront ... support millions of websites across critical sectors, including government and healthcare, making them indispensable

The author is pretty naive. There is a reason why Google was left out of the list, in the 2010s people argue "Google is too important and China never dare to block it" then google's whole IP range is blocked.

Amazon Cloudfront, Akmai, Fastly are also (partially) blocked and barely working.

IMHO cleve tricks like "domain fronting" is just freebooting

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doxx9999 9 months ago | parent | next [-]

This works on ANY CDN... I focused on Cloudflare because they provide free accounts and it's pretty robust.

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dlenski 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

> IMHO cleve tricks like "domain fronting" is just freebooting

What do you mean by "freebooting"?

We added domain fronting support to the OpenConnect TLS-VPN client _in 2022_ because it is still working and useful for many people working in censored countries and environments. https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/...

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vundercind 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

> What do you mean by "freebooting"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

Private attempts to meddle in the security and interests of states.

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est 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

> because it is still working

That's a big "still" and you don't loose anything in case the real owner of the "fronted" domain suffers loss.

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		I don't think it's right to assign blame here to any party other than the authoritarian regime that decides to block the whole CDN.