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So "we don't host our clients' content"

currently *hosts* trans suicide jokes for Kiwi Farms. #DropKiwifarms #CloudflareProtectsTerrorists #CloudflareSupportsTerrorists

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

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Aug 24

... holy fuck, I thought of another brilliant angle. if, indeed, they uploaded to Cloudflare for their custom error page messages specifically referencing trans suicide, then Cloudflare's argument that they don't "host" the material, they just proxy it, that goes out the window

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You can configure it to continue serving content after a site goes down based on the content they've stored on their servers for caching so I'm not sure why they try making that argument. It's a caching proxy by default and capable of serving content when origin server goes down.

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Before they lowered the limit on file size they were willing to cache and imposed stricter policies about which content can be used behind it we used it to act as a distributed package repository for free. Not allowed anymore but at one point it was and it worked fine for it.

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Here's their documentation for the always online feature: developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/al Since they run a pull-based CDN and have a ton of edge nodes you need a lot of users actively browsing across a site across the world to have your site largely cached in each for it to work well.

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Always Online · Cloudflare Cache docs

Cloudflare makes customer websites faster by storing a copy of the website’s content on our servers. Caching static resources at Cloudflare reduces your server load and bandwidth, with no extra...

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I really don't understand how they can claim not to host websites when they have this feature. Even if you give them a ton of leeway and don't consider caching the content to be hosting it, they are capable of serving the cached content directly with the origin server gone.