So 1 in 5 websites you visit are subject to man-in-the-middle man attack and an American company feeding that information back to three letter agencies. Let that sink in.
>>107264500Genuine question, what are the alternatives? If you host a public website in 2025 you will get bombarded with LLM scrapers sending 100 requests every 5 seconds. They don't respect robots.txt either, they literally recursively scrape every reachable page on your website from links in the HTML. Cloudflare also has other important offerings for large systems like CDNIt's like complaining about AWS, people (meaning actual enterprises hosting websites, not hobbyists) use that shit because they have a useful product
>>107265595if you can't handle application layer spam maybe computers aren't for you
