I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      9 days ago

      This is not how things work on the modern web. Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma?

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Whenever you’re browsing even a semi popular website these days there’s probably a 98% chance you’re hitting a cloudflare cached version of it. Have you been asleep the last 10 years?

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.

          And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.

          • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            19 hours ago

            Dynamic sites still get cached.

            Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.

    • hylobates@jlai.luOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      There is cache but for some reason this does not affect every page I serve currently