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[–]raven9 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You are right to criticise the use of cloudflare because they are a MITM server that intercepts end to end encryption but as any platform that refuses to comply with the use of one of those outfits will be the victim of state sponsored cyber terrorism usually in the guise of DDOS, they have no choice.

[–]ManWithABanana 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's an interesting way to describe it. I thought Cloudflare was a protection against DDOS attacks. Am I wrong ?

[–]raven9 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it is, but it is like a protection racket.

Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which the US Government and the tech corporations had made it policy to spy on all our internet traffic. Those concerned with internet privacy pushed back by implementing https everywhere.

How do you break end to end encryption like https? You put a man in the middle.

So who you think forces everyone to use MITM servers like Cloudflare by carrying out DDOS attacks against their platforms if they don't?

We know the US Government is monitoring all the internet traffic yet when these DDOS attacks take place they just look the other way because they and their agencies and the tech corporations are just one big criminal regime that bypasses constitutional protections by using private corporations to do the dirty work.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

SaidIt is open to alternatives to cloudflare if you've got any ideas. they don't even give you rate limiting for free, which has taken us down a couple of times during big DDOSes.

[–]RatMan29 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You might inquire at epik.com, they host gab so they have had to defend against DDOS attacks.