Am I the only one worried about Cloudflare becoming too powerful?

We went through this with E-mail: we slept through the period when Google, Microsoft and AWS were growing, and we ended up with them dictating the terms. Today I get 90% of my spam from Google, Microsoft and AWS and they don't care: they can safely ignore spam reports, because at this point they are Too Big to Block.

I have a feeling we are moving towards the same problem with Cloudflare and the web. Tomorrow Cloudflare will start dictating what we can or cannot do and we will not be able to do anything about it. This has already begun: their arbitrary "bot-filtering" for example.

Fix your stupid Turnstile that blocks humans first. You are gatekeeping the whole Internet. Even Anubis works better than the Clownflare garbage.

If anyone is interested, you can implement something like that with a few lines of code on the front end. We expose a function that generates a uniformly-distributed hash that you can use for A/B testing and other uses:

  Q.Data.variant()

https://github.com/Qbix/Q.js/blob/main/src/js/Q.minimal.js#L...

And on the back end, you'd use it like this:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/classes/...

Essentially, this can support a huge number of "variants" and within each variant you can have N equal segments. That will help you do A/B testing and flipping features on or off.

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Feature flags are so ridiculously simple I have never needed to outsource this to someone else.

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