Comment by meowface
8 years ago
Most of those booters are on their free tier, so it's a bit hard to argue it's a racket.
If you want to claim it's unethical... maybe. But if you think about it from their position, it could genuinely get into a slippery slope if you start policing what services you're reverse proxying. Especially considering the rate they're growing now.
Think of it this way: should Google be compelled to remove all search results for all booters and other malware-related services? It's asking a lot.
Google already does that:
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/ https://www.stopbadware.org/blacklisted-by-google
Problem is, these are just frontends advertising the booter services. They're not serving malware themselves.
Cloudflare, like Google, does have a similar program and does remove websites that are directly hosting malware or phishing pages. They just don't remove the gray-area stuff, like hacking forums and black market customer portals.