Hope they learn the hard way to stay away from overly powerful centralised systems, I can see that, probably, when they made their choice, the stance of the service seemed good enough to bite the bullet and have a convenient setup, but we’ve seen time and time again how corporate will comply with governments as they rightly have to do, only privately can you really not care, though you also take the responsibility for that. What we can hope is that decentralisation makes the crackdown harder to put into effect
It’s not just convenience - depending on how you use it, Cloudflare is also pretty good at giving an additional layer of anonymity. They assign any user of your site to the closest CDN Server geographically, so it’s is pretty hard to determine how and where your site is actually hosted. They also used to be pretty good about resisting takedown requests.
Oh well. I’d say time for a federated CDN, but the legal costs would probably be rather annoying for most volunteers.
Hope they learn the hard way to stay away from overly powerful centralised systems, I can see that, probably, when they made their choice, the stance of the service seemed good enough to bite the bullet and have a convenient setup, but we’ve seen time and time again how corporate will comply with governments as they rightly have to do, only privately can you really not care, though you also take the responsibility for that. What we can hope is that decentralisation makes the crackdown harder to put into effect
It’s not just convenience - depending on how you use it, Cloudflare is also pretty good at giving an additional layer of anonymity. They assign any user of your site to the closest CDN Server geographically, so it’s is pretty hard to determine how and where your site is actually hosted. They also used to be pretty good about resisting takedown requests.
Oh well. I’d say time for a federated CDN, but the legal costs would probably be rather annoying for most volunteers.