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OP lives in Southeast Asia and suggests website owners choose a different CDN and fails to propose an alternative. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There are two complaints,

(1) cloudflare requires a captcha for visitors from some regions (like SouthEast Asia)

(2) cloudflare does not have enough nodes in SouthEast Asia, and OP feels being rerouted to another node defeats the purpose of a CDN.

Yet, Cloudflare does (1) because they often see attacks from those regions. I'm not sure blaming Cloudflare for this is the right strategy. Regarding (2), CDNs do not just benefit users, they benefit the website too. Getting rid of the CDN is not a solution. Is there a better free CDN for that region? Is multi-CDN easy to setup?



> Getting rid of the CDN is not a solution.

Why not? The whole everyone-needs-Cloudflare is a made up problem, which depends on many false narratives.

And why do we as website visitors have never heard of Akamai, yet it's hard to find anyone who's never seen these captchas from Cloudflare and Incapsula?

> Is there a better free CDN for that region?

You can only find free mice in mousetraps.


> Why not? The whole everyone-needs-Cloudflare is a made up problem, which depends on many false narratives.

I've never seen anyone say "everyone needs cloudflare" except maybe CF itself.

> why do we as website visitors have never heard of Akamai

Akamai is not free, they have a trial period that is free. It's not in the same space.

> You can only find free mice in mousetraps.

I don't understand your point. You feel CF is a trap?


> I don't understand your point. You feel CF is a trap?

Of course it is. If you aren't paying for service, you're not the customer, you're the product.

The whole mandatory TLS campaign is part of the lock-in, too.




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