I recently stumbled across Cludflares trustpilot page and the reviews were completely mismatched from the way I have experienced people talk about them on forums. The reviews on trustpilot make them sound awful, but I have only seen recommendations for them on forums, often people say they are the best DNS provider.

Whats up with that? Does anyone know why there is such a disparity.

    • mox
      25•4 months ago

      As an advocate for the free and open internet I wouldn’t consider them a force for good any more than Google, Facebook or Amazon.

      They’re not only a centralised point of failure, but also a man-in-the-middle for so many sites that they can effectively track people all over the internet through web and DNS requests, and fingerprint browsers through CAPTCHA scripts, and even read people’s HTTPS traffic.

      I consider them a hostile actor.

      No organisation should have such pervasive access to people’s lives.

    • @[email protected]
      17•4 months ago

      the most recent Cloudflare drama.

      It was made up by a shitty illegal crypto casino:
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091144

      They’ve been known to fuck customers before but I can’t really find specific examples.

      Of course you can’t find specific examples because they are known to be great with customers.

        • @[email protected]English
          10•4 months ago

          I think it’s a little ridiculous though that Cloudflare can’t do any sort of geo-restriction instead.

          That’s not their job, it’s the job of the site operator.

          It’s a free-tier service ffs. Who runs a company on a free-tier?

        • @person420
          7•4 months ago

          It’s super relevant in this case since they were shutdown for abusing the system and given warning that they decided to ignore while looking for a new provider.

    • @[email protected]
      5•4 months ago

      see if the LB is accessible directly via the internet. DNS management at medium sized corpos is usually a clusterfuck so it’s definitely a non-zero chance.

      Can confirm lmao