Hopefully this is an all-around improvement over the last year, and I'll see how it goes, but I've gotten a little concerned about all the blind dependence that a lot of sites now have on Cloudflare.
For one reason, I recently spent months with Cloudflare blocking my Firefox ESR from many sites, including 2 key paid ones for work.
When both companies showed zero interest in trying to figure out why Cloudflare was doing that, even if they lost a customer, I had the thought that this is probably what it's going to be like with a lot more things.
We all know some of the key huge companies that do the math about how many users they're willing to lose/screw, to gain some other advantage or to reduce some cost.
But Cloudflare might be one way that small companies will have no choice but to lose/screw users in an uncaring way, like they were those uncaring huge companies. That might hurt the companies eventually, but it will tend to hurt many users first.
Fingers crossed that at least Cloudflare is rising to the challenge to not become a resented Kafkaesque institution.
For one reason, I recently spent months with Cloudflare blocking my Firefox ESR from many sites, including 2 key paid ones for work.
When both companies showed zero interest in trying to figure out why Cloudflare was doing that, even if they lost a customer, I had the thought that this is probably what it's going to be like with a lot more things.
We all know some of the key huge companies that do the math about how many users they're willing to lose/screw, to gain some other advantage or to reduce some cost.
But Cloudflare might be one way that small companies will have no choice but to lose/screw users in an uncaring way, like they were those uncaring huge companies. That might hurt the companies eventually, but it will tend to hurt many users first.
Fingers crossed that at least Cloudflare is rising to the challenge to not become a resented Kafkaesque institution.