Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.

Outages have put this dependance to question, and the same with recent news about the US government obtaining data through subpoenas. It’s a free service that takes care of many of the difficulties when it comes to hosting your service online, but everyone knows that free is not free.

What do you all think about Cloudflare?

    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      How are you planning to do it? It’s typically used as a defence against bots which are becoming more of problem not less. What you describe is Cloudflare’s managed challenge, most of the time it doesn’t even need you to click anything because you already clicked somewhere else.

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            1 day ago

            Nah, the solution should just be done in the background. Invisible and not a forced interaction

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              You don’t see a problem with automating a thing against automation? It can be done but in principle the less forced human interaction you get the more privacy invasion it requires.