@crashglasshouses @joepie91 @thufie They pitch it as "DDoS protection", and to be fair, DDoSes can be pretty huge
but on the other paw, fuck that.
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@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie That's the thing though, Cloudflare has been consistently a) overexaggerating the likelihood of getting hit by a DDoS (it's not actually that likely, even today), and b) failing to mention that there are plenty of non-MITM high-capacity DDoS mitigation providers that existed long before Cloudflare did.
Basically, they used fear marketing to convince people you can't live on the web without their services.
@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie (And ironically their DDoS mitigation has always been pretty shit compared to the established providers, at least on the free plan, where they'd easily kick you off for getting targeted)