> This website has been temporarily rate limited

Feels a bit ironic... though this website is hosted on Cloudflare Workers so using an American company anyway?

monokai_nl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well this is nice. Apparently I reached some limits (thanks all), and had to pay Cloudflare more. Fair I guess, although some warning would've been nice. Tried multiple payment options multiple times just now and Cloudflare botched every time without giving me an error message. Finally managed to get it through on the 10th time. Please be gentle now :/

	▲	embedding-shape 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That sucks... Bunny CDN served me and others great when it comes to a Cloudflare alternative, if you're looking for an alternative. I understand the pragmatism with going with CF, but I'd lie if I didn't also say using CF as the front for your entire "European Digital Stack" kind of makes the blog-post feel less authentic compared to my initial impression, because of that.
	▲	devsda 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I want point out the other aspect of that decision to use cloudflare because the content is already public. If your users are in a sanctioned region or a sanctioned entity it is entirely possible for cloudflare to deny serving them traffic. In a way your website users are still bound to the US policies even if you or your country doesnt approve of those sanctions.

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Winblows11 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare = NSA creation to get around HTTPS

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iso1631 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's more likely they just use/abuse it than specifically created it, same as things like google spyware. The NSA's desires and the ad industry are aligned, so its a match made in heaven.

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chrisweekly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

citation?

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have to wait for the next Snowden before you get any citations.

NSA collaborator or not, the mere existence of something like Cloudflare, which also tries to nudge you into skipping internal http/tls and just use that at the front, makes it highly likely that NSA is already deep in their infrastructure, just like they've been in the past for literally any big technology company in the US.

But yeah, zero citations, zero evidence, just based on history and what the goal of the organization is, it's pretty clear what's going on already.

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nozzlegear 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So just conjecture and speculation, then.

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, just like expecting the sun to also rise tomorrow is mostly conjecture and speculation since we cannot see into the future, yet.