The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing the block was based on his browser configuration. This left the author unable to complete important work tasks and questioning how much control individuals really have over authentication in an increasingly centralized web ecosystem dependent on remote attestation. It highlights the need for transparency and user agency in how identity verification is implemented online.

  • upstream@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Someone I know who works in payments told me they had to go to CF because of the insane amount of DDoS attacks they were facing.

    While having three ISPs and mitigating a boatload of DDoS on their own infrastructure they were simply unable to cope with the persistence.

    They first tried another provider, but they handled less DDoS than their own internal systems.

    Cloudflare wasn’t even sure they wanted them as a customer.

    Some of the biggest attacks mitigated by Cloudflare last year (they wrote about it) was this client.

      • upstream@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Depends on what you mean by self-hosted. Because basically they are. No cloud providers meet their security requirements (required for their level of PCI certification).