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For all the fearmongering that Cloudflare and other mitigation companies do about "DDoS attacks from cybercriminals", turns out that it's actually the nominally 'legitimate' (LLM) companies that end up breaking people's websites.
Funny how that works.
For a bit of context for those not familiar with the industry (which I suspect is going to be most people): the DDoS mitigation industry has a *long*, multi-decade history of trying to drum up business by scaring people into believing that they could fall victim to a fatal DDoS attack any moment.
The reality is that that is very unlikely to happen unless you become an Interesting Target (there's only so much firepower to go around after all), and this was even more true in the front half of that history, when stuff like organized extortion through DDoS wasn't even a thing yet.