AI scrapes internet from millions of IPs worldwide proving an orchestrated, intelligent, botnet effectually becoming a large percentage of total internet traffic overnight.
Internet responds by retreating to behind a single cloud provider who can mysteriously keep ai at bay... Same provider network is probably responsible for the near instantaneous distribution of AI traffic to begin with.
Internet's last bastion of hope is attacked, rather quickly, and half of the internet is scrambling to remember how to administer DNS (The other half never knew).
Cloudflare yet again making the internet a shittier place. I will never understand why so many people willingly allow their website to be MiTM’d by this garbage company.
There are so many CDNs, they have existed since the internet was just for porn. The problem is they are not as easy to use for today's novice webdev with zero knowledge of how to administer or even research infrastructure beyond the stack specs.
AI scrapes internet from millions of IPs worldwide proving an orchestrated, intelligent, botnet effectually becoming a large percentage of total internet traffic overnight.
Internet responds by retreating to behind a single cloud provider who can mysteriously keep ai at bay... Same provider network is probably responsible for the near instantaneous distribution of AI traffic to begin with.
Internet's last bastion of hope is attacked, rather quickly, and half of the internet is scrambling to remember how to administer DNS (The other half never knew).
Cloudflare was already a thing before AI scrapers
And they were strongly suspected to DDoS their prospective customers, so they would suddenly have a need to buy DDoS protection.
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what is this "AI" your referring to?
Cloudflare yet again making the internet a shittier place. I will never understand why so many people willingly allow their website to be MiTM’d by this garbage company.
Then I suppose you know a better alternative when your site is being effectively DDOSed by a ridiculously high volume of scrapers. Please share.
There are so many CDNs, they have existed since the internet was just for porn. The problem is they are not as easy to use for today's novice webdev with zero knowledge of how to administer or even research infrastructure beyond the stack specs.
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E.g. https://www.fastly.com/
But Cloudflare has the best marketing of all of them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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LA here.
Bonjour!