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"Free Palestine, F Israel" being treated as a threat is consistent with how all other Palestine/Israel speech is treated. E.g. in the UK if you said that in public you'd be considered a terrorist sympathiser (which is criminal). If you said it in Germany you'd be considered a Nazi (which is criminal). If you said it in the USA, they couldn't directly criminalise you based on speech but they'd find something else, like public nuisance or being a terrorist. So I'm not really surprised by this at all.

They pay something. You can get a few ten cents per gigabyte for a voluntary proxy right now. I've never tried it long enough to get a minimum payout, so could be a scam for all I know (or maybe the minimum payout is the scam).

What would stop you offering someone a few tens of cents per GB to borrow any other token barrier you put up?

That's called an IP address. You pay your ISP $50+ every month to get one. Has it worked so far?

This is called rotating residential proxy service. You can buy it off grey market sites that are probably getting it from botnet operators. It costs about $2-$5 per GB.

And blocking ipv6 addresses isn't unfair to people who have an ipv6 address?

Because paying with MITM is far less visible than paying with money

There's also the Anubis idea where your PoW is persistent until your IP address or session cookie changes, so you get to skip PoW in exchange for making yourself identifiable, which means the PoW can then be ramped up to take a couple of minutes.

I don't use Anubis though. I just make my site not take five seconds to render a page so bots can overload it easily? It's not actually that hard?

Yes

They're blocking Firefox quite often. Stripe does something that makes Firefox hang. I use Chrome for those sites and then go back to Firefox...

Cloudflare will just tell them that 70% traffic drop is because 70% of their traffic was bots, and everything is working fine, and hey, don't you want to upgrade to a paid plan to block 50% of the remainder? Think about how many bots will be blocked with that upgrade!

It's just one more facet of the enshittoscene, the era where actual product quality is completely irrelevant. Put it in the same bucket as websites that lag when you scroll, apps that refuse to show you video without a huge play/pause button overlaid in the middle of it that never goes away, and the movie Melania. My hypothesis is that billion-dollar businesses no longer exist to sell things to customers, but only to impress other billionaires to get their investment money.

Probably everyone on HN singing their praises for the past 10 years.

Right. Botnet operators love cloudflare because they make so much money renting out compromised machines to pass their tests.

You repeatedly failed to describe any third option. Good day.

How would you rugpull a GPL Redis?

You forgot the shareholders, who are not users but have less freedom under the GPL.

I see you have taken the latter option: feel smug, ignore the real world, and fade your brand into irrelevance. Oh well, plenty more brands out there.

Indeed you can step down, but as one of the comments says:

> Just because you're giving free soup to the homeless doesn't mean you can piss in it

Oh he's legally allowed to do this, it's just that he's a dick for doing it.

One of the issue comments says:

> Just because you are giving free soup to the homeless, doesn't mean you can piss in it.

Sounds like "Literate Programming", where the code and comments are reversed: instead of everything being code except what's marked as a comment, everything is a comment except what's marked as code.

They got the ultimate seed-spreading, since we farm them.

Well Iran is letting ships through if they trade in petro-non-dollars (mostly yuan) and pay a fee, and the American blockade also lets those through if they're not coming from Iran itself. At this point the cheapest oil is the oil bought in yuan. Massive own goal there.

Who would conduct that trial?

Europe had sanctions to avoid the American sanctions on places that didn't have sanctions, they'd rather trade with America than with Iran, but they don't actually care themselves.

In European cities less people drive.

I suspect two reasons. First, it's not easy to make your own blog - what are you thinking of here - self hosted wordpress, which will surely get hacked? If you use a service like WPEngine, that's no better than using substack.

Second, Google only surfaces the big platforms any more.

Yep. Without Europe, we'd have no idea which websites were trying to sell us out to the highest bidder.

I wonder if cloudflare is wise enough to always skip captchas from IP addresses it detects are associated with that website's owners.

Way more important than this act are the police raids. Someone used your SaaS to send phishing (see today's front page HN)? They'll just take all your servers away. Goodbye business. Unless they think the general public would riot, so established companies are okay. You can't build a castle on a foundation of quicksand.

There's never been any rule that the best product wins. Trivial example if I make RAM chips and give them away for free I'll lose.