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0 pointsdanaris10mo ago0 comments

> This is just barking up the wrong tree and it applies to everything that people use.

You're missing the part where it's a single company, not just "the entire anti-DDoS infrastructure", that's being talked about here.

It would be perfectly possible (no idea how practical offhand) to have an entire ecosystem of competing CDNs all doing the same thing that Cloudflare does, rather than just Cloudflare making those decisions all by itself.

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Spivak10mo ago

There is an ecosystem of competing CDNs. Blocking any one CDN necessarily impacts all the sites hosted on that CDN. This is a function of being a webhost with multiple customers not being Cloudflare specifically.

danarisOP10mo ago

Except that the problem here is that Cloudflare, specifically, is so widespread that blocking it is highly likely to block many very important things.

If the ecosystem were truly more competitive, it would be much more likely that, for instance, if you went to block the CDN serving one particular football piracy group, it would not block half your government websites at the same time.

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