Cloudflare as bad or worse than DDoS

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29 Aug 2019, 5:07 am

Cloudflare which is supposed to protect against DDoS attacks causes so many problems it might as well be a DDoS attack itself.

Countless people have quit Wrong Planet over the constant errors and captcha glitches created by Cloudflare aka Crapflare.

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12 Sep 2019, 7:29 pm

EzraS wrote:

I've come close a couple of times.

On a couple of occasions, I wrote a rather long and thoughtful reply on a thread only to have Cloudflare nuke the reply. I learned that when I do that, to just give up for the day and not bother replying.

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12 Sep 2019, 7:41 pm

EzraS wrote:

Cloudflare which is supposed to protect against DDoS attacks causes so many problems it might as well be a DDoS attack itself.

Comrade, we have explained to you that this happens when you try to connect directly via the Kremlin server. Remember your training on how to access a false US address by way the relay station in Jamaica? Restart your computer and then use that method. If it still doesn't work you may have to come in to have your cranial implant replaced again.

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12 Sep 2019, 7:45 pm

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12 Sep 2019, 7:49 pm

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That's pretty good.

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18 Oct 2019, 9:46 am

6 hour or so outage overnight.

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18 Oct 2019, 10:45 am

That robot cartoon is quite upsetting!

I kept getting Cloudflare errors trying to access Wrong Planet for a few hours this morning.

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18 Oct 2019, 6:57 pm

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That robot cartoon is quite upsetting!

I kept getting Cloudflare errors trying to access Wrong Planet for a few hours this morning.

Upsetting how?

Because it is having an existential crisis or is it jealousy that a robot beat captcha

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21 Oct 2019, 4:27 pm

SaveFerris wrote:

Upsetting how? Because it is having an existential crisis or is it jealousy that a robot beat captcha

I've just been stuck with a captcha on here for the first time, I avoid doing them as much as possible. I had been trying to post a quote from a Wikipedia page but when I removed the quote it went through without making me complete it :shrug:

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25 Dec 2019, 11:14 am

Cloudfare is the Grinch. It gave me an outage for Christmas.

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25 Dec 2019, 4:21 pm

Grinch cloudfare is logging me out midpost, just like in the good old days.

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26 Dec 2019, 9:08 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Cloudfare is the Grinch. It gave me an outage for Christmas.

Me too. I was expecting it to be out the whole day.

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