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timperatoday at 10:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

Blocking bots should not be the default behavior, it should be opt-in. Is Cloudflare trying to play both sides in order to secure a fee on every pay-to-crawl in the future?


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inigyoutoday at 11:07 AM

Yes. Obviously.

pluctoday at 11:44 AM

Cloudflare's business model is playing both sides. They sell anonymity to attackers and mitigation/protection to the victims.