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What is the deal with cloudflare reviews (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently stumbled across Cludflares trustpilot page and the reviews were completely mismatched from the way I have experienced people talk about them on forums. The reviews on trustpilot make them sound awful, but I have only seen recommendations for them on forums, often people say they are the best DNS provider.

Whats up with that? Does anyone know why there is such a disparity.

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[–] Kuinox 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

the most recent Cloudflare drama.

It was made up by a shitty illegal crypto casino:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091144

They’ve been known to fuck customers before but I can’t really find specific examples.

Of course you can't find specific examples because they are known to be great with customers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

shitty illegal crypto

Opinions. Irrelevant. What is and isn't "shitty" is a matter of opinion. Obviously fuck casinos and crypto scams but it ain't relevant.

The explanation you linked on the other hand is valid. I think it's a little ridiculous though that Cloudflare can't do any sort of geo-restriction instead. Just about everything is illegal somewhere.

Of course you can't find examples because

I can't be arsed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a little ridiculous though that Cloudflare can't do any sort of geo-restriction instead.

That's not their job, it's the job of the site operator.

It's a free-tier service ffs. Who runs a company on a free-tier?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It is their job. They advertise it as bot blocking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's super relevant in this case since they were shutdown for abusing the system and given warning that they decided to ignore while looking for a new provider.