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karmad

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  1. Cloudflare does not provide protection for end users. They are not a service for end users. They are a service for website owners and they claim to provide a limited form of protection for website owners. Cloudflare doesn't claim to offer a firewall against targeted attacks. It simply reduces the number of nasty bots draining resources, probing for security holes, and scraping e-mails. An attacker that is specifically targeting a website can bypass Cloudflare as you say, but 99% of unwanted bots and crawlers won't bother with that, so it is a useful service. It is also free and trivial to use. It has saved me considerable time compared to setting and maintaining similar protections manually. I know because I've manually setup automated rouge bot detection and blocking before. I only us Cloudflare on my smaller and less vital sites because it is too automagical for my most important ones. While I appreciate your position on security, it seems to me that with all pros and cons totaled up, your all-or-nothing approach is on the wrong side of things. It is harming both innocent website owners and web users. What if we were talking about a larger CDN? How many CDN blocks will it take before the software starts to become unusable? It also appear to me that you may be trying to bully Cloudflare into becoming a cyber police. They have a free and open service. That is asking for a lot. What next? Start blocking whole IP blocks, or entire hosting companies, or even countries, for failing to police their users to your satisfaction? Perhaps there is an intermediate level of warning that can be provided, informing the user that the current web address is not known to host malicious content but it's IP address is associated with other sites that do, so extra caution should be exercised.
  2. Related: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=108447
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