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I'm noticing more and more organisations, including ones I respect (eg. OSI, RIPE), putting their websites behind Cloudflare's servers.

Is centralizing the web behind a US company like Cloudflare, on balance, a Good Thing ™️ ?

Feel free to reply and explain your thinking. Why is it needed? Why is it good/bad? If you have done this yourself, why did you do so?

:BoostOK:

  • Yes (3%, 2 votes)
  • No (96%, 53 votes)
55 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom
Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom  
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@dentangle: Yep, also that they (e.g. https://www.linux.org/) no more work with all cookies disabled is a blatancy.
@Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Brett Sheffield (he/him)  
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just tried visiting linux.org - blocked by a cloudflare captcha.
Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom
Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom  
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@dentangle: Looks like this here.

@onepict: /me neither. Probably due to one of the privacy-focussed browser extensions I use, too.
A screenshot of a browser window of https://www.linux.org/docs/man8/lvm-fullreport.html saying (in German): "www.linux.org Aktivieren Sie Cookies und laden Sie die Seite erneut. Ray-ID: 7b20b30449c0394 Leistung und Sicherheit von Cloudflare"
@Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: @Brett Sheffield (he/him)
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uniq  
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Well, I had to fight off putting f-droid.org behind cloudflare. What really scares me is how some people who talk a lot about privacy and foss don't get why companies like cloudflare are toxic for the free and open web ...

Now we're spending ~100€/month on webservers plus my volunteered time maintaining it. Cloudflare would sponsor #FDroid traffic for free. But I think it's worth my effort. 😀
#Fdroid
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