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Hector Martin
@marcan42
So "we don't host our clients' content"
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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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... 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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Daniel Micay
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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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Daniel Micay
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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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Daniel Micay
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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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