“Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h”
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
> but when they start "urgently" needing to talk to you you're probably not going to get out until you have a juicy custom contract with them
On the one hand, the company in question is a casino and, honestly, fuck casinos
But OTOH, Cloudflare is clearly running a protection racket so fuck them too
Baldur Bjarnason /
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2024-05-27 10:04:49
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