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Comment by justizin

3 years ago

> Stop visiting sites who treat their users this badly!

The problem is the individual sites aren’t making these highly technical decisions, people are using what seems to them an innocuous security product.

Not visiting a random website places no pressure on CloudFlare to change, since there’s no way to correlate your choice with the decision to use CloudFlare.

Not to mention that you may not have a choice. I've seen government sites have this shit on them. We're quickly approaching the satirical society of the movie _Brazil_.

  • Unverified: 27B/6 derives from George Orwell's address.

    I'm wondering how long it will be before we have memory holes considering how, apart from the internet archive, there is perpetual bitrot and silent updates.

It's a form of digital totalitarianism. Submit to the rule of a few corporations or be left out socially, economically, etc.