Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
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Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
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
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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.
What browsers does it block?
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Well that was fun!
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I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
Does it need to?
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The whole internet is down. Unless you self host
Stuff hosted by cloudflare is not the whole internet
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I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
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Still a very important service for many people who are alone.
Self host your desperation.
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Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
You can try https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
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Does it need to?
No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?
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I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
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Honestly, I didn't even notice.
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I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
This is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
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I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that's it, none of their proxying stuff.
Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them...
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this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
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I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
I prefer less uptime at saturday over a random rare outage.
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This is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
Maybe this guy lives in an area immune to random outages ? Never any power shutdown, internet disconnection or slowness. And his hardware never fails too 🫢
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This is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
......My UPS kicks in.
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Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.
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The problem was actually caused by Google
Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.I've been looking everywhere for somebody to explain it. Like, there are dozens of articles outlining exactly what happened. Which I don't need because I was there. I know what happened. I just have been wondering why and finally you have provided a link that actually gives me a reason.
So, thank you kind stranger.
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Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them...
For me it's because it's free, easy to use, and supported by ddclient.
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