I know several people working as software engineers at Cloudflare. According to one of them, this incident (blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th) was hardly a mistake. Cloudflare is including block lists sourced from far right evangelical groups as part of their 'family friendly' DNS service.
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Cloudflare is aware their 'family friendly' DNS (1.1.1.3) isn't blocking sites like Kiwi Farms (kiwifarms . net) or Daily Stormer (stormer-daily . rw). It's a deliberate decision, despite their blog post claiming their filtering is meant to mimic SafeSearch, which filters them.
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Cloudflare has not stopped using block lists sourced from hateful groups. They only stopped including the subsets explicitly marked for that purpose. Easy to see why getting porn block lists from groups producing LGBTQ block lists results in continuing to "mistakenly" block more.
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I could be mistaken but did you recently recommend an alternative to Cloudflare?
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I recommended using rage4.com for unmetered managed DNS including unmetered GeoDNS. Direct alternative to Cloudflare's standalone load balancing.
Also recommended OVH for unmetered/uncapped bandwidth VPS and dedicated servers with decent DDoS protection included.
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Fastly is very directly comparable to Cloudflare as a CDN, load balancing and DDoS mitigation proxy service. It has strong policies against hosting hateful content: fastly.com/code-of-busine. There are plenty of other alternatives too. These are just 3 different options available.
