Recent content by MySiteGuy

"Sanctions work" is not the absolute I said. What I did was show your absolutes, aren't absolute: "Sanctions (or bombs) don't motivate people against the government (any more than they already are motivated)." I gave examples where they have. "From my first hand experience, I've concluded...

Iran 2015 Nuclear program sanctions by U.S., U.N., and EU, pressured Iran into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal South Africa in the 1980s Sanctions by the US and EU, along with diplomatic isolation contributing to ending of apartheid. Libya in 2003 Sanctions caused them gave...

You haven't seen phpBB, SMF, Flaurum, and the majority of forum software? I've done hundreds of migrations to Xenforo and less than a dozen have asked to migrate their calendar. Just because you think it's an important feature, doesn't mean it is to most people. Why should they put their energy...

You're not telling me something I don't already know. I've made note of warrant canaries since the mid-early 2000s. Cloudflare has finer grained canaries than most - listing things they don't do - and when one of those things disappears you know law enforcement forced them. Not using...

No, your point was understood. It’s the sanctified packaging that was unnecessary.

It's too bad this has turned into the Spanish Inquisition with @Ferry questioning another person's motivations, standards, principles and morals.

It's easy to make such statements when you're not the one faced with possible legal ramifications by doing business with someone in an embargoed country. While it's probably okay because it fits under non-advanced, and civilian use, the cost of consulting an attorney for a definitive answer is...

At the very least, run your host's origin IP address through a multi-rbl lookup: https://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check/ https://multirbl.valli.org/

Respectfully, what I'm reading from you is a cynical view with unsupported assumptions. Cloudflare already has 82% of the reverse proxy market share, and 20% of all websites go through them. Rather than abusing their market position, I've seen them increase efforts at transparency, and they are...

They are in fact correct that Google's services can be a privacy violation. For that matter, visiting any website their web server logs can have sites people are visiting from, what browser is used (and in many cases, the browser's plug-ins), IP addresses and from IP addresses, geo-location.

I know this, but do you seriously think they would use this to for any purpose other than handling the WAF and other features? If so, the FBI and many major companies would not be using them to protect their websites and other infrastructure. There are inexpensive DDOS services people can rent...

See my reply to ES Dev Team. If you think you're any better off with other countries, looked up the recent raids and server confiscations in the Netherlands, a country famed for its so-called privacy protections.

Yes, I know it's required, since the end point for the client facing SSL certificate is their network, but I seriously doubt this is something Cloudflare would consider doing, much less actually do, given that news of such a thing would essentially destroy their reputation. Cloudflare's...

How is it a huge privacy violation versus all the other networks their traffic is already passing through? Are you not using https on all your sites?

That's a view which neglects that for many it has nothing to do with in-house expertise. For some, its a matter of spending time where it's most cost-effective. I wrote a suite of tools for my sites, including a dynamic robots.txt generator which would create rules based on what was fetching it...