• 30p87@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Well the admin of a site could opt out of using cloudflare for the time being, a user could do literally nothing. Errors in Cloudflare can easily take down their servers and therefore the CDN and access to like 20% of websites. And Bugs in Cloudflare can even leak user data.

        So cloudflare can grant DDOS Protection, CDNs and other exploiting protection, but can take down large parts of everything, temporarily or permanently.

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      1 year ago

      Only because no one does what they do as well as they do it.

      If they had competition, that wouldn’t be the case. Sadly, there are very few other good guys out there…

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          1 year ago

          There exists competition, they’ve just been doing it consistently well at a large scale for awhile.

          They’ve done nothing to prevent competition, because they’re legit AF. The competition just hasn’t put a dent in their market share because they’re excellent at what they do.