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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 00:47:45 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

   Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

   Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

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     Nick (internic@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:52:47 JST Nick

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     • Mark T. Tomczak
     • Daniel Schildt

     @autiomaa @mark @david_chisnall Honestly I'm kind or surprised there isn't a "pay Cloudflare for X connections without a challenge/captcha", because it would be another revenue stream for them.

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     Daniel Schildt (autiomaa@mementomori.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:52:48 JST Daniel Schildt

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @david_chisnall Instead of fixing broken code with proper logging and code performance observability, lets stop all the effort and expect Cloudflare to care about actual humans (and not just about their PaaS billing). 😓

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:52:49 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @david_chisnall I like this one specifically because the Cloudflare gate is there to address the problem of "Too many visitors."

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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:52:55 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark

     This morning, Cloudflare decided that a company I wanted to place an order with shouldn't trust me, so I went to one of their competitors.

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     Daniel Schildt (autiomaa@mementomori.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:53:04 JST Daniel Schildt

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     • Mark T. Tomczak
     • Nick

     @internic There is such payment model on Cloudflare for the LLM companies (giving them much faster download speeds for 3rd party content scraping), but not for regular consumers.

     @mark @david_chisnall

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:55:13 JST Rich Felker

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @david_chisnall Monopolies like Amazon don't use Cloudflare. It's the small guys with incompetent webdev teams that use CF.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:55:14 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @david_chisnall There is a hilarious possible future where the government fails to do anything about monopolies but Cloudflare has a de-factor competition increase effect because it makes it so onerous for everyone to use one site that people start self-selecting to use other sites.