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@jimmy@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish •
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Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

mashable.com

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Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

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Users are reporting widespread errors at popular apps and websites.

Archive of cloudflare status

Google status

  • @floo@retrolemmy.com
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    49•2 months ago

    Cloudflare is a cancer

    • Ernest
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      21•2 months ago

      tell me more

      • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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        39•2 months ago

        It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It’s become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.

        • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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          21•2 months ago

          It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to “check if I’m human”

        • @hera@feddit.uk
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          4•2 months ago

          What browsers does it block?

          • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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            7•2 months ago

            Minority browsers. Since I daily drive Pale Moon, I’m among the people affected. It’s suspected that they test only the 3-4 most popular browsers, and whether anything else works with their code is up to luck.

            You may think browsers with tiny market shares aren’t important, but all new browsers start out that way. I fear for Ladybird if it ever makes it past the alpha stage, for instance.

            • @hera@feddit.uk
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              1•2 months ago

              I’m super interested in alternative browsers but never have the time to test them. I always wonder what the Internet would be like if we built it from scratch right now instead of having the legacy of 30 years of development to support.

      • melroy
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        He is not wrong. Look the whole internet is basically one centralized cloudflare if we continue this path.

      • @ag10n@lemmy.world
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        15•2 months ago

        https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/cloudflare-once-again-comes-under-pressure-for-enabling-abusive-sites/

        • Ernest
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          5•2 months ago

          great article, and I had no idea that happened to Brian Krebs, of all people! o.O

          I do think the EFF makes a good point though, and I think personally I tend to be biased towards content neutrality over moderation (at least, more strongly the larger the platform is, and Cloudflare is very large). Not to the point of Xitter, obviously, but I think there’s at least a reasonable argument for Cloudflare in this case.


          that said, after some searching, I did find the following two articles, and I find their arguments against Cloudflare very compelling:

          • https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
          • http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/

          Fortunately I’m already using end-to-end SSL certs via Caddy, but now I’m considering just moving off Cloudflare entirely and instead providing regular backups to Internet Archive–most of the stuff I host is entirely static and very lightweight.

      • @hemmes@lemmy.world
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        4•2 months ago

        Like the bad kind

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      Redacted

      • @Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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        7•2 months ago

        You can try https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

      • @Anivia@feddit.org
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        5•2 months ago

        Interesting, I have a lot less problems with the Cloudflare verification, than with Google captchas. The slightest unusual thing seems to put you in captcha hell

      • @swelter_spark@reddthat.com
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        2•2 months ago

        When I get to that screen, I just x out most of the time. It’s usually not that important.

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