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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I mean the criticism against Cloudflare is 100% valid. Having a single service be the single point of failure for half the web, not to mention that they can read the contents of every single request they proxy, is a terrible joke.

But the service they provide is real. A small business/service just doesn't have the capabilities to handle a DDoS attack. And every minute their site is down means lost customers/users.