It is obvious that Cloudflare is being influenced to enforce browser monopolies. Imagine if Cloudflare existed in 2003 and stopped non Internet Explorer browsers. If you use cloudflare to "protect" your site you are discriminating against browser choice and are as bad as Microsoft in 1998.
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If you use cloudflare to "protect" your site you are discriminating against browser choice and are as bad as Microsoft in 1998.
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Agreed. I use cloudflare for domain hosting because they're cheap, but I have never liked their protections.
Need to start spoofing user agent strings again.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 3.0)
What doesn't work with Lynx is a wrong website.
Agree for static content like news and blogs. Disagree for dynamic content like games and social media. And the latter is mostly for scale (having server-side templating is expensive for rapidly changing content).
Then again, there's a case for snapshotting SM pages every so often for things like crawlers and cli browsers.
So make useragent sniffing useless by all being Chrome?
Funnily enough, some webpages work better if you block webgl and set the user agent to Lynx or Dillo.
I was planning on moving away from Cloudflare to European providers anyway, so this just adds fuel to the fire.
I'm considering using BunnyDNS for DNS management, not using a CDN at all, and using Scaleway for serverless functions.
Maybe is against the ToS but I've used github as CDN for free in the past... Might work for you.
I never felt it was wrong, it was around the time of the Microsoft acquisition.
I appreciate the suggestion, but Github is also an American company. I've been moving my git repositories to Codeberg.
My sites don't get enough traffic to warrant a CDN really, but if necessary, BunnyCDN looks like it can fit the bill. Plus, my static sites are in Scaleway object storage.
Should change my user agent to sod off
Yeah? I ddos websites with Pale Moon and Iceweasel so what?
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