[tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

[Andreas Krey]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:20:53 +0000, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
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> I know nothing about Cloudfare's "business model."  But, the old saying, 
> "There's no such thing as a free lunch," is still true.

And there isn't. The DDoS part is inclusive with their other (paid)
service; they're a CDN. The DDoS part is free just because their
inbound links are underused anyway (requests only).

> are making money somehow.  Leaving the most likely explanation for them 
> providing a "free" service (similar to):  *Cloudfare makes money from 
> user data on the site(s).*

There is no informed need to jump to that conclusion.

Andreas

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"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800