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Instead of 'DoS Protection' Cloudflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 20, 2025

This is work in progress which merits further investigation. I'd ask Cloudflare for comment, but knowing Cloudflare, they do not speak to critics. Almost a decade ago, just because I occasionally criticised Cloudflare, using polite words and not personal attacks, it seemed like all Cloudflare staff was made to block me in Twitter (no other company ever did this, only Cloudflare!).

Cloudflare is "protecting" its staff from facts.

What do Web users say Cloudflare does to them now?

Driving their machines out of RAM, crashing the operating system if not 'just' the application [1, 2]

Not only CF widget now freezes palemoon, it causes runaway memory usage too. It just ate 24GB in like a 2 minutes, until PM was killed by OOM killer...

Other people report similar experiences:

Also, I'm not sure if newer versions of Linux Mint simply handle memory leak situations better, but on my existing Mint 20.3 installation on a system with 32GB of RAM, it basically causes my entire OS to crash. But testing on a fresh install Mint 22.1, it seems to only leak memory until the swap is invoked and then goes back down to just a few hundred megabytes regardless of if the system has 8GB or 24GB of RAM?

"People later in the thread are saying it doesn't always happen," we're told, "indicating Cloudflare might be using multiple browser fingerprinting techniques at random" (serving malicious versions to some or only sometimes).

Cloudflare generally destroys Web sites in the name of 'protecting' them.

If you value the Web, you will avoid Cloudflare. Don't go there. Don't outsource your site/s to Cloudflare. █

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