• foggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Only because no one does what they do as well as they do it.

        If they had competition, that wouldn’t be the case. Sadly, there are very few other good guys out there…

  • InvaderDJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I don’t know how any end user who doesn’t understand IT and wasn’t around before services like Cloudflare were available can say this. They objectively don’t have the information or experience to make the claim.

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlOP
      01·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using the intermet since 2003 and have seen no difference except when cloudfare breaks.

      • idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, the internet is much bigger than it was in 2003, and it needs more complex protective tools. The fact that you haven’t noticed cloudflare when it is working is a sign that it is, well, working.

        And the fact that your favorite sites aren’t down more often is yet another sign. Downtime due to DDOS attacks alone would be so much greater without cloudflare than downtime due to cloudflare currently is. Your perspective is a pure lack of knowledge and an excess of confirmation bias.

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlOP
      02·
      1 year ago

      Provides a single point of failure for a large portion of the internet that nobody else has any control over?

      • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Using cloudflare is more reliable than using your own stuff which is still an option that nobody chooses anymore because it’s better to choose cloudflare or something similar.

        I’m going to go ahead and assume you don’t work with internet security in any way, have no experience in web development, and have never attempted to provide web application services to more people than you can count on your fingers, but if you had, cloudflare is mana from heaven.

      • PostColonialMyAss@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh no, centralising DNS and CDN traffic which are critical for the web and the internet into a single company is a bad idea?! Who knew!?!