it's about time someone fuckin did it.
it's a shame it's Russia though.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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What are you even talking about?
cloudflare is a symptom of the corporatization of the internet.
they goals are counter to the goals of the internet to be a distributed repository of communities and information.
CF not only unifies all the communications through their services, which can cause worldwide outages (happens literally every year), but collects and tracks users across all other network requests.
CF is anti-privacy and pro-corporate interests.
That clarifies it, thanks
Its an endless arms race. Next will be chunking vpns that chunk requests down to 16kb packets and reassemble on the other end. There is nothing stopping a custom protocol from working around this limitation, in a safe secure manner.
Just a matter of time.
You could probably do it with http if the server properly supports the content range headers.
According to technical experts, internet service providers across the country have begun implementing a rule that limits data transfers from sites using Cloudflare to just the first 16 kilobytes. This technique is relatively subtle but effective: very lightweight, basic websites can still load, creating a façade of normal internet function, while modern, media-rich sites are effectively broken.
16 KB per website? What part of the normal internet is that small? What part of the indie web is that small?
e.g. look at the smallest sites on https://512kb.club/
Or is this just 16kb per request, which would make more sense with the following explanation:
Analysts report that similar throttling is also being applied to other major western hosting providers popular with Russian users, including Germany’s Hetzner and the US-headquartered DigitalOcean... [they] are widely used by Russians to host private VPN servers, which allow them to bypass the Kremlin’s ever-widening blocklists.
AFAIK, VPNs maintain a long-standing connection that would definitely use more than 16kb at a time.
Cloudflare and Russia are both bad, take each other down pls
Why is cloudflare bad?
