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gervwyk on Jan 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruin...

The doorman for the internet. well said. Someone need to study how this is likely the most successful marketing campaign ever for a cloud provider.

theamk on Jan 3, 2025 [–]

I don't think they needed much marketing? A lot of website operators want bot/DDoS protection, and cloudfare offers service which works (at least for overwhelming majority of users), and is absolutely free.

Offering free stuff which works and that many people want is how internet companies get big.

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