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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 146 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is a nice CloudFlare ad

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yeah. still not worth dealing with fucking cloudflare. fuck cloudflare.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

DEATH TO CLOUDFLARE!

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That would be terrible for a lot of people as they are the only company providing such services that doesn't charge for traffic.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

They can use web.archive.org as a cdn(I do that to cloudflare websites). But honestly, cloudflare or not, the internet is broken.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you explain please? How can I use archive.org as a cdn for my website?

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

just take a snapshot of your website... then make all links to your website link to that snapshot, and turn your server off.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, well, it's okay if it suits for you. Just not at all an alternative to cloudflare.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago

I have an alternative to cloudflare, it's sitting in my living room and it's called a raspberry pi.

[–] turmoil@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Using archive.org as a CDN at the scale of Cloudflare would be an immediate death sentence for archive.org.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

well I'm doing my part: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bcma/ sorry archive.org, I promise I'll donate ❤️

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's wrong with cloud flare?

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Centralization, mostly, but also their hands-off approach to most fascist content.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

They kind of have to be hands off or risk losing safe harbor protections.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 2 points 3 days ago

I get the centralization concerns, but I would think that's on the consumer since there are other options. As for the fascist content, as another commenter said, they could risk their safe harbor if they started stated regulating content that they weren't legally required to regulate.

Just my thoughts.