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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h
(robindev.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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The guy's running an online casino. With millions of subscribers. CloudFlare can kick them off the internet and steal the copper off the eyelets of their boots for all I care.
Yes because you yourself are against something you should take the ability of adults choosing to do that away! And also make a company able to extort you for it!!
Can you read?
Bye :)
"You have 24h to pay up" seems a lot like ransom, therefore "cloudflare is bad".
Lemmy is getting bigger now, and you can see the quality of discussions in large Lemmy communities take a hit lately. If you want quality discussion, go to smaller communities.
Ah yes, the nuclear solution. Very reasonable.
With that said, we only have one side of the story.