Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder.
Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
jwr 8 minutes ago [-]
I had similar thoughts: "let's convince everyone to outsource the decision on who can access their websites to us, because BOTS BOTS BOTS" and "let's make life easier for bots to do things".
derektank 41 minutes ago [-]
Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content. From elsewhere in their documentation, “Cloudflare limits how quickly you can create temporary preview accounts. If the Wrangler CLI cannot create an account because too many temporary preview accounts were requested too quickly, wait before retrying or authenticate the CLI with a permanent Cloudflare account,” and “Cloudflare applies additional abuse prevention checks to temporary preview accounts.”[1] This is a bit vague though. Creating a new account has never been a huge hurdle to overcome but this seems to reduce the barrier to entry even more.
> Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content
If it helps laugh DDoS attacks they would be incentivized to do the exact opposite. They can charge more for “protection” then.
anilgulecha 51 minutes ago [-]
If eastdakota/jgc are here.
- simply expose containers to the world directly - without having to go via workers.
- You have other amazing parts of the stack anyway (D1, durable objects, a great object store). These aren't considered "lockin".
- workers is "lockin" - not similar enough to lambda/cloud functions and so becomes CF specific.
Not having a simple container based compute piece has made me hesitate in taking up CF. (Fly or firebase won out)
yodon 35 minutes ago [-]
>Not having a simple container based compute piece made me hesitate in taking up CF
Agreed. I wish CF had something like Azure's new fast-starting Express containers.
ndjdjxixjenej 42 minutes ago [-]
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aniviacat 44 minutes ago [-]
Wouldn't it make more sense to merge the temporary account into an existing one, instead of claiming it as a new account?
This could lead to people having a large amount of separate accounts.
kylecazar 37 minutes ago [-]
I assumed that's how it works if you sign in before claiming the account?
It says to claim you can either sign up or sign in.
827a 41 minutes ago [-]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does Cloudflare still not have a "Create Account" button on the account listing page? I think you still have to sign up from scratch doing plus-code email tricks, then invite your original email address as an admin, juggling multiple accounts. They should consider fixing that first.
conception 49 minutes ago [-]
I know no one is writing copy anymore but i wish they tried to edit it a bit so it wasn’t so glaringly obvious. It just sours the product when it seems like so little effort was put into the message. And it’s not even hard - just change the prompt used!
Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/claim-dep...
If it helps laugh DDoS attacks they would be incentivized to do the exact opposite. They can charge more for “protection” then.
- simply expose containers to the world directly - without having to go via workers.
- You have other amazing parts of the stack anyway (D1, durable objects, a great object store). These aren't considered "lockin".
- workers is "lockin" - not similar enough to lambda/cloud functions and so becomes CF specific.
Not having a simple container based compute piece has made me hesitate in taking up CF. (Fly or firebase won out)
Agreed. I wish CF had something like Azure's new fast-starting Express containers.
This could lead to people having a large amount of separate accounts.
It says to claim you can either sign up or sign in.