der.hans
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Should you use iCloud Private Relay? Here’s how it works https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/25/should-you-use-icloud-private-relay-heres-how-it-works/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@9to5Mac
this is a badly researched or deliberately omissive piece of journalism.
this is a badly researched or deliberately omissive piece of journalism.
Let's start with: "The second relay, which is operated by a third-party content provider,...". Who is this 3rd party? Many users, especially here in the Fediverse, would rather jump in a lake than give their data to Cloudflare, the mysterious, 3rd party!
Secondly, while travelling, your IP-address still shows up as you being in your country of origin.
I think I just discovered a fairly large phishing network using #Cloudflare as the registrar. That hides the #WhoIs data.
Many domains are in use, so blocking or reporting one username@domain1.tld is ineffective, because the same email continues to be sent, the next time from username@domain2.tld. Each domain has an MX record from a subnet that provides a different IP for each mail.domain#.tld.
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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Checkout my blog post on 1.1.1.0/24 hijack by AS4755 - https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2025/07/cloudflare-dns-outage/
« Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 »
Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
Checkout my blog post on 1.1.1.0/24 hijack by AS4755 - https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2025/07/cloudflare-dns-outage/
Roni Laukkarinen
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Cloudflare: Datamme paljastaa, että tekoäly-hakukoneet eivät lähetä juuri lainkaan lukijoita verkkosivustoille
Käytännössä data paljastaa sen, minkä moni osasi veikatakin: vaikka tekoälytuloksia tarjoava hakukone antaisi vastauksen kylkeen linkkejäkin, josta vastaus on saatu, niin käyttäjiä ei kiinnosta. Käyttäjä sai jo vastauksen, eikä klikkaa itseään tiedon lähteelle.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/06/27/cloudflare-tekoaly-hakukone-statistiikka
#cloudflare#tekoäly #hakukone #hakukoneoptimointi #google #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka
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Cloudflare vuole che Google modifichi il suo crawling di ricerca basato sull'intelligenza artificiale e probabilmente Google non lo farà.
Dopo che #Cloudflare ha iniziato a testare nuove funzionalità che avrebbero consentito ai siti web di bloccare i crawler AI di #Google o di richiedere un pagamento per lo scraping, BigG si è subito trovata ad affrontare domande sulla logistica del piano.
In particolare, i proprietari di siti web e gli esperti SEO volevano sapere in che modo Cloudflare intendeva impedire al bot di Google di effettuare scraping dei siti per alimentare le panoramiche dell'intelligenza artificiale senza rischiare di impedire allo stesso bot di eseguire la scansione per ottenere posizionamenti di valore sui motori di ricerca.
Cloudflare vuole che Google modifichi il suo crawling di ricerca basato sull'intelligenza artificiale e probabilmente Google non lo farà.
Dopo che #Cloudflare ha iniziato a testare nuove funzionalità che avrebbero consentito ai siti web di bloccare i crawler AI di #Google o di richiedere un pagamento per lo scraping, BigG si è subito trovata ad affrontare domande sulla logistica del piano.
In particolare, i proprietari di siti web e gli esperti SEO volevano sapere in che modo Cloudflare intendeva impedire al bot di Google di effettuare scraping dei siti per alimentare le panoramiche dell'intelligenza artificiale senza rischiare di impedire allo stesso bot di eseguire la scansione per ottenere posizionamenti di valore sui motori di ricerca.
Just tried to subscribe to the RSS feed for https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html. Huh, seems that I can't. Why? Because they're sitting behind Cloudflare, and Cloudflare demands that you prove that you're human in order to subscribe to it. As my feedreader isn't human it struggles somewhat here.
Turns out this has been going on for a while and it's impacting a lot of sites and open standards software.
https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users
Cesare Pautasso
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“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”
— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/
“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”
— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/
[Cloudflare] Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web
I am not a fan of #Cloudflare for various reasons that you probably already know. But if they want to help drive a stake into the heart of vampiric #AI, that's fine with me. -L
https://gizmodo.com/free-lunch-is-over-for-the-ai-that-broke-the-web-2000623837
Cloudflare: Datamme paljastaa, että tekoäly-hakukoneet eivät lähetä juuri lainkaan lukijoita verkkosivustoille
Käytännössä data paljastaa sen, minkä moni osasi veikatakin: vaikka tekoälytuloksia tarjoava hakukone antaisi vastauksen kylkeen linkkejäkin, josta vastaus on saatu, niin käyttäjiä ei kiinnosta. Käyttäjä sai jo vastauksen, eikä klikkaa itseään tiedon lähteelle.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/06/27/cloudflare-tekoaly-hakukone-statistiikka
#cloudflare#tekoäly #hakukone #hakukoneoptimointi #google #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka
I'm done with the #cloudflare antibot thing everywhere, there must be a better solution.
Not a single week passes, without me writing an email to a website owner that need to unhook their site's RSS endpoint from Cloudflare's claws.
Do it for the sake of preserving your reader's audience!
https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users
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#rss #blogging #cloudflare