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There are bots that hurt the expected operation of your server, of course:

- those that cause far too much traffic

- (comment) spam bots

- (for some companies) bots from companies that steal data & resell it verbatim

- …?

Whether CloudFlare is actually the best (or even a good) tool to fight all those, I have some doubts…

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- If you don't want traffic don't put up a website on the public web.

- If you don't want comments don't have comments.

- If you don't want your website to be public then don't put it on the public web.

And companies are getting just that from Cloudflare. They are no longer on the public internet. They're putting themselves on the modern AOL: Cloudflare.

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