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This is an important example of why to avoid Cloudflare. If your website gets popular, your website's images will be replaced with the image: "This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare's basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service." and your website will break.

https://www.cloudflare-terms-of-service-abuse.com/streaming....

This is on the Business tier too, not the Free one.

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Even on Business? I remember Neocities were serving terabyte of images and CF didn't even force them to upgrade.

Yes, according to a deno core dev: https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1366938508875726851

beautiful - .ts is used on DVDs as a container for video data which predates .ts as an extension for typescript files by about 20 years.

Small correction: TS (MPEG transport stream) is mainly used for transmissions or broadcasts (e.g. DVB). The container format used for DVDs is PS (MPEG program stream), which is often stored as .mpeg files, and isn't quite the same as TS.

MacOS points this out in the finder for all my typescript files...

Probably an edge case. From what i've seen these edgecase errors are quickly fixed/intervened by a human and fixed.

(i have no personal experience with popular sites personal/free-tier sites sadly)

Indeed an edge case - took them 18 hours to fix tho. Post mortem at https://deno.land/posts/02-03-2021-outage-post-mortem

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