Cloudflare seems to be a necessary evil at this point given the state of DDoS attacks. You can always use a VPN or Tor or both to access these websites.
It seems suspicious to me that there's only one viable option for such services.
Indeed, and we desperately need better options. I think it would be interesting for there to be a decentralized solution using P2P and the blockchain. Any good centralized cloud service needs to be highly transparent(independent server-side inspections and whatnot), be based on at least open source software but preferably libre software, and accept bitcoin as payment.
Very true, but its not like those services are bullet proof either.
That's correct, but it's some protection nonetheless. Of course it goes much deeper with things like browser/machine/habits/grammar fingerprinting and packet size/timing monitoring, the latter doesn't have much of a solution that I know of at this point, unless there's an encrypted proxy service with traffic padding and delay options with a sufficient amount of users on each node.
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solar_flare ago
Cloudflare seems to be a necessary evil at this point given the state of DDoS attacks. You can always use a VPN or Tor or both to access these websites.
Sciency ago
It seems suspicious to me that there's only one viable option for such services.
Very true, but its not like those services are bullet proof either.
solar_flare ago
Indeed, and we desperately need better options. I think it would be interesting for there to be a decentralized solution using P2P and the blockchain. Any good centralized cloud service needs to be highly transparent(independent server-side inspections and whatnot), be based on at least open source software but preferably libre software, and accept bitcoin as payment.
That's correct, but it's some protection nonetheless. Of course it goes much deeper with things like browser/machine/habits/grammar fingerprinting and packet size/timing monitoring, the latter doesn't have much of a solution that I know of at this point, unless there's an encrypted proxy service with traffic padding and delay options with a sufficient amount of users on each node.