It's almost as if making one organisation the gatekeeper to a quarter of the internet is a bad idea...
- But when I make a meme about it here everyone acts like I'm an idiot. Vindication feels like shit when I'm negatively affected by the consequences.
  
  Got to keep doing it until it lands.
  A lot of this knowledge is siloed
- Who knew?
- A quarter only?
- I recently had issues because CloudFuck blocked the IP of one of my VPS's effectively breaking npm (JavaScript package manager)
Guess CloudFlare was evil all along.
- Was there some drama about trans people existing and using the bathrooms at cloudflare?
I don't understand how CloudFlare is intermediating the traffick in this case. How can CloudFlare block the sites if they aren't hosted on CloudFlare or using CloudFlare services? Are they acting as an ISP in the UK?
- They cache a lot of the internet so like the infra of the internet after the isp
  
  So the ISP redirects the request from the primary host to the CloudFlare cache under some conditions? but wouldn't that be ineffective at blocking the sites of the browser still attempts to pull from the primary host first? I'm assuming this must be mediated by the ISP somehow otherwise it would just be a browser setting to only pull from the primary host of the domain.
Watch the stars on FlareSolverr soar.
- The constant stream of piracy related utilities that end in "rr" never ceases to amuse me.
  Bonus joke! "What's a pirate's favourite letter of the alphabet?"
  (People often say Arrrrr! here, especially if you seed that context earlier in the conversation)
  "You'd think so, but actually it's C"
  
  "Arrr, you'd think so, but a pirate's first love always be the C"
  
  I don't get it ..unless qbt is written in C
- FlareSolverr hasn’t actually worked in a long time though, since CloudFlare started paying attention to it. And it wouldn’t even work for this problem. This is CloudFlare refusing to allow DNS requests for the pirate sites, and instead redirecting users to their “this is a pirate site that was shut down for breaking the law” page. Which FlareSolverr wouldn’t solve even if it was functional, because FlareSolverr only solved the “are you a bot” captcha challenges, not automatic redirects due to DNS.
  
  That’s true. I didn’t really think much when I said that, but it wouldn’t help here. It is still working though, as far as I can tell.
why don't more pirate sites use anubis? cloudflare has always been pro fash trash
- Is Anubis a DNS service? I was under the impression that it was basically just a reverse proxy that you ran, which required a proof-of-work before it would pass the request off to your various services. If that’s the case, it’s doing a fundamentally different job than CloudFlare is. Because the DNS will likely hit CloudFlare before being forwarded to your Anubis. Like the order of the request would be:
  User>CloudFlare DNS>Anubis>Site
  If that’s the case, using Anubis wouldn’t change the fact that it’s being blocked by CloudFlare.
  If Anubis is an actual DNS service, I may need to look into it more for my own use. I hadn’t bothered, because I thought it was more like Nginx.
  
  Anubis is self-hosted AI firewall defence. Parent comment is weird.
Cloudflare is more than just DNS. They provide CDN, bot blocking and storage. They most certainly can fuck you up.
Can somebody suggest another privacy oriented domain hosting provider?
are there any alternatives?
- DNS provider? Plenty.

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