Found this today on hackernews and I think it is time for me to look for alternatives to cloudflare if their CEO will decide to cut a whole country over fines
Let me explain you what are those fines for:
In Italy, soccer is so powerful that commands the government. They can legally block batches of IP adresses just because one of them could be streaming a soccer game.
It means if your IP is in the batch (even if you are innocent but just happens to share server with that pirate) you are cut from internet. No appeal, the IP is dead and your only choice is get a new one.
It’s so dumb that they even blocked google once because of it. Cloudshare is fighting that, and I can assure you everyone in Italy, except the usual assholes licking the politician boots are beyond pissed with the so called “piracy shield”.
I did not experience it personally, but in Spain LaLiga is forcing ISPs to do the same and lots of websites get fucked in the process.
Can confirm, friends there are extremely happy with how they are handling it. Seems everyone loves having half of the internet down whenever there’s a play beacuse they block cloudflare as a whole.
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Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.
Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.
What are the alternatives?
Akamai, Fastly, and the other big cloud providers each have their own solution. There don’t seem to be many large CDN’s in the EU, though
You can’t trust any American oligarchs or large American companies.
The “shadowy cabal” rhetoric is funny considering how there is zero real judicial overcite if US technology companies due to corruption in all three branches of the government.
It looks like Italy has been making onerous censorship demands, and Cloudflare has been fined for refusing to comply. That seems like a W for Cloudflare to me.
cool a W for a corpo sucking a state vs another state, like this was a sports match or something
It just reads like “look we basically run and own most of the internet so you can’t just boss us around. Because if you do everything breaks because everything is us.”
I hate it.
Is Anubis an alternative to Cloudflare?
To one feature of cloudflare, maybe.
