Cloudflare Controversies

The cluster centers on debates criticizing Cloudflare for protecting controversial sites, unfair user blocking, DDoS involvement, and other policies, with some defenses of their services and non-interference stance.

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Sample Comments

kvam Oct 4, 2025 View on HN

Why would cloudflare be the company to do this?

Hamuko Oct 16, 2019 View on HN

Didn't Cloudflare take that stance prior as well?

yjftsjthsd-h Sep 20, 2022 View on HN

Cloudflare is the one blocking a user based on things that aren't their fault; I'm happy to blame them.

warrenm Oct 4, 2023 View on HN

More proof Cloudflare is a pariah

ummonk May 11, 2019 View on HN

Cloudflare seems to have provided a service that fixes a lot of the issues you mentioned, so I'm not sure why you're mad at Cloudflare for making the best of this bad situation.

re-thc May 12, 2023 View on HN

How is it accurate? Who's to say that Cloudflare can't do much about it?

flylib Feb 25, 2017 View on HN

I lost all respect for Cloudflare

rubatuga May 6, 2017 View on HN

It's a problem, but it's not a problem cloudflare should touch with a ten foot pole

ocdtrekkie Sep 1, 2022 View on HN

Cloudflare isn't "stepping in". Anyone can sign up for Cloudflare. So you're asking Cloudflare to explicitly step in and strip protection from a particular website against their policies of basically non-interference, presumably to enable a DDoS attack to succeed.

netsectoday Oct 5, 2022 View on HN

Cloudflare provides products that protect against malicious requests. They don't help craft those requests, and they don't flood traffic to websites that aren't using their product. It's not a racket.