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bySnotnose ( 212196 ) writes:
I can't think of a bigger world wide stage than the Olympics. If Cloudflare takes their ball and goes home then their internet coverage goes to hell.
On the other hand, it would also show companies are bigger than countries and no longer have to follow their laws.
On the gripping hand, I'll just grab my popcorn and watch.
byZ00L00K ( 682162 ) writes:
Leaving Italy would tell us if Cloudflare is necessary or not.
bydunkelfalke ( 91624 ) writes:
I am sick and tired seeing cloudfare captchas. The sooner they are gone the better.
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byAnamon ( 10465047 ) writes:
I don't like them either, but in a time of wanton scraping for LLMs, their value proposition is that the alternative would be the website not being reachable at all, or going offline entirely because the traffic becomes too expensive.
And who knows, they may even be right. I don't think it's unplausible when I look at the analytics of my own tiny static (unprotected) site, which is less than 500 kB total and barely indexed by search engines, yet generates hundreds of megabytes of traffic per day from LLM sc
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