I know a lot of people are mad at CloudFlare, but I don't understand the outrage at them.
They handled this poorly (very poorly) regarding appropriate notice, but they did what they've always done. They follow the law.
The law in this case is stupid and I disagree with it, but expecting CloudFlare to break the law on your behalf is unrealistic.
Be mad at the fuckers who passed these laws.
@nixy CloudFlare deserves shit for a lot of other crap they've done in the past and are still doing. I can absolutely see the point.
@Shotagonist
Such as?
@nixy It provides protection for criminal and/or odious websites (be that kiwifarms or rescator) and is known for providing these websites with the full personal information of people filing abuse complaints against these websites (one of the cloudflare admin literally confirmed this to me on twitter) The majority of SSL certificates used by phishing sites are also provisioned by CloudFlare. Is that good for a start, because there is more.
@Shotagonist
These are reasons why CloudFlare and other CDNs are bad for the internet as a whole and I'd agree with all of them.
But they aren't reasons why someone needing a CDN/DDOS protection shouldn't choose CloudFlare.
CloudFlare is shitty and abused by lots of nefarious people, but so are a lot of web services (URL shorteners are more trouble than they're worth)
@nixy cf that is, not the people using it
@nixy i dont blame people for using it, but I don't feel sorry in the least for the shit flung at them currently.