@zeborah @hex0x93 @david_chisnall Partially correct – their reason is fair, but CloudFlare is just one of the providers offering such protection, an oligopolist, not a very good service, and probably a data hoarder.

Anubis would be a popular alternative, however self-hosted.

(I can‘t access CF-gated sites at all because the checkbox captcha just breaks most of the time. Happens if you activate basic privacy features of your browser.)

@david_chisnall True! Well you could at least call someone at O‘reilly and suggest writing a book on that topic

@retrocoffee @verge Discord never was that Internet we used to know (open, standards-reliant, distributed, community-driven, easy access) but the exact opposite (company-owned, gated, monetized, centralized, enshittified) 🤫 I hope people will actually notice and make a choice, instead of just moving to a lookalike.