https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897705
...but OTOH it's their customers who want all of that and pay to get that, because the alternative is worse.
rock and a hard place.
Besides CloudFront, which still costs money, what other option is there for semi-privacy and caching for free?
You might want to read some threads on here about Cloudflare.
Most of the time I don't use them for their network, usually just DNS records for mail because their interface is nicer than namecheap and gives me basic stats.
To my understanding, they aren't blocking MX records behind captchas
So if I wrote, "You would put" instead of "You put", then what? Would you be comfortable using their "AI protection" simply because it's free?
Maybe you haven't, but your users (primarily those using "suspicious" operating systems and browsers) certainly have – with their time spent solving captchas.
I get captchas daily, without using any VPN and on several different IPs (work, home, mobile). The only crime I can think of is that I'm using Firefox instead of Chrome.
(the people not getting the joke, yes the new system don't make you train any image recognition dataset, but they profile the hell out anything they can get their hand on just like google captcha and then if you smell like a bot you're denied access. goodbye)
Turn on Tor and browse for a week.
Now you know what “undesirables” feel like, where “undesirables” can be from a poor country, a bad IP block, outdated browsers, etc.
It sucks.
Just use the Tor browser
