I am not a fan of the growing trend that Cloudflare is the gatekeeper of the internet. Personally I will never support this company, or firewall any of my websites behind it.

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smalltorch 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Step one: Make a gate everyone uses

Step two: Sell keys to the gate

Muah ha ha

But in all seriousness I wonder who needs this... api's are suppose to make it easy to bridge two application... and you didn't need AI to utilize an api before so I wonder what's pushing this sort of thing to extract value down to individual calls?

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nzeid 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm old-man-yelling-at-the-clouds here. Everyone just uses Cloudflare, which is not a bad thing by itself. But do they _have_ to? Is managing your own edge really that terrifying?

	▲	ygouzerh 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For non-corporate entities, it is! Having an almost a plug and play solution who does CDN + DDoS Protection + WAF/Rate Limiter + Bot Protection, for a few bucks, is very useful for startups and SMEs. And compared to cloud different offerings, their quick setup and lower cost is hard to beat.
	▲	AviationAtom 5 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I think DDoS attacks are really what propelled them to the heights it has. The attacks seem to get bigger and bigger by the year. You need a really big pipe to filter them out on before passing on traffic to servers with a much smaller pipe.
	▲	skinfaxi 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Is managing your own edge really that terrifying? It's about convenience, not fear. Cloudflare is free for most companies until you need more advanced features.

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zuzululu 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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