Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.
    • D_Air1@lemmy.mlEnglish
      242·
      3 days ago

      The only options when dealing with governments is comply or get out.

      • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        151·
        3 days ago

        Humm… Who are telling this to?

        If you’re talking to businesses, if this were true, all the tax optimization and fraud would disappear overnight, I almost wish it were true.

        And if you’re talking to citizens, how about labor organization, revolts, resistance?

        Either way, that looks awfully reductive

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      I never trust that move. I’m fairly sure that they only do that so they can crawl themselves and sell the data.

      • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Oh, of course.

        But that’ll help make AI more expensive to dev and lighten the load on smaller sites that are crumbling under the AI load.

        I hope cloudflare’s competition makes that available too to make sure cloudflare doesn’t have all the data and the leverage that goes with it.