That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:
users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
the Tor community
VPN users
users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots
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There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.
It’s an abuse of the fediverse and antithetical to #decentralization to use Cloudflare. And ironically your comment comes in response to broken functionality manifesting from links to exclusive venues appearing in an openly public forum.
#digitalExclusion
Shame this is posted on a centralized Cloudflare instance, which causes problems for people using Tor,VPNs,CGNAT,etc:
I think whatever you’re doing is a little overkill for Lemmy. Normal users don’t have these issues.
That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:
There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.
It’s the beauty of the fediverse
It’s an abuse of the fediverse and antithetical to #decentralization to use Cloudflare. And ironically your comment comes in response to broken functionality manifesting from links to exclusive venues appearing in an openly public forum.