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Why is no one using Quad9 instead of Cloudfare? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 hours ago by LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Seems a little odd that the fediverse uses Cloudfare.

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

A lot of fediverse instances for some weird reason use Cloudflare for captchas and espionage. I assume it's a sort of "genre-blind" offloading hardware work moment, if not something like being Class Traitors, because one of the big reasons people come to the Fediverse is precisely to escape the grip and decision power of giants like CF.

[–] zombiebikini@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I guess if you have to defend against DDOS attacks going big is the only way.