Besides the reasons already listed, Cloudflare is free, Azure is not. As a pirate site owner I imagine you don't want you payment information with your name associated with your pirate site. You can pay for hosting and dns with crypto.
i have no data to back this up but in the past cloudflare was much more lax with piracy sites and I can imagine that Azure is stricter with blocking them
I would imagine they do. The people running the pirate sites know what they are doing. Noone who really wants to stream pirated games is stopped. Blocking CF is performative, not effective.
I wondered how they actually managed to have their own business to be unencumbered by that. At a certain corporate level, you have to have some piece of tech in your portfolio that relies on cloudflare. I hope one day there companion or "2nd screen" apps stops working during a game, because using cloudflare.
Dumb question but why don’t the pirate sites all host on Azure if Cloudflare is blocked and Azure isn’t?
Besides the reasons already listed, Cloudflare is free, Azure is not. As a pirate site owner I imagine you don't want you payment information with your name associated with your pirate site. You can pay for hosting and dns with crypto.
i have no data to back this up but in the past cloudflare was much more lax with piracy sites and I can imagine that Azure is stricter with blocking them
I would imagine they do. The people running the pirate sites know what they are doing. Noone who really wants to stream pirated games is stopped. Blocking CF is performative, not effective.
Hmmm. Don't they have a reporting form or something like that? Down with those filthy Azure pirates on IP 52.166.113.188.
Starting a new business I see...this actually seems like the best form of protest here so good luck to you.
I wondered how they actually managed to have their own business to be unencumbered by that. At a certain corporate level, you have to have some piece of tech in your portfolio that relies on cloudflare. I hope one day there companion or "2nd screen" apps stops working during a game, because using cloudflare.
Sounds like the answer here is to host alt streams on Azure.