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It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. (lemmy.world)
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[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Normal users don't have these issues.

That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:

  • users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
  • the Tor community
  • VPN users
  • users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
  • privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
  • blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
  • the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
  • people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots
  • …

There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.

[-] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Good thing that they can just simply use another fucking instance thanks to federated systems.

[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not exactly. [!showerthoughts@lemmy.world](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world) was a poor choice, as is:

  • [!showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster](/c/showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works](/c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ca](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ca) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@lemm.ee](/c/showerthoughts@lemm.ee) ← Cloudflare
  • [!hotshowerthoughts@x69.org](/c/hotshowerthoughts@x69.org) ← Cloudflare, and possibly irrelevant
  • [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ml](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ml) ← not CF, but copious political baggage, abusive moderation & centralized by disproportionate size

They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on #lemmyWorld. [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ml](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ml) would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

(EDIT) [!showerThoughts@fedia.io](/c/showerThoughts@fedia.io) should address these issues.

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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