InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
on 23 Sep 2024 17:10
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This, and I think the firing of some ppl but might be confusing it
Orbituary@lemmy.world
on 23 Sep 2024 17:22
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Debacle.
âdebucleâ is what happens before CF dry-humps you.
thefartographer@lemm.ee
on 23 Sep 2024 17:29
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Debuckle is what my dad did before I got the belt
Whoever says parents arenât hitting their kids enough either werenât abused much as a child or were abused far too much. I was abused just enough to avoid ever having kids.
delirious_owl@discuss.online
on 24 Sep 2024 15:23
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Or protecting jihadist websites? They have a pretty bad track record
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 23 Sep 2024 17:06
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Does that mean scraping without paying access to scrape it is circumventing a protection and so can be treated like cracked software/piracy of movies? /s
Technically itâs only for AI stuff, so honestly it doesnât matter if youâre doing other stuff
SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world
on 23 Sep 2024 20:39
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I guess if you canât beat them itâs the next best thing.
toastal@lemmy.ml
on 24 Sep 2024 02:21
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The gall of Cloudflare to think they can be the arbitrator of scraping⌠this is what happen when all yâall give a singular publicly-traded, US-based major control of the general internet infrastructure by purposefully letting them man-in-the-middle your production sites. Now they get to sell access to what was once an open internet. Instead every time Clouflare or Fastly go down, half of the internet goes down with them.
morrowind@lemmy.ml
on 24 Sep 2024 02:34
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They donât think theyâre the arbitrer of scraping dumbass, this is a service theyâre selling to websites who donât want AI scrapers taking adnatage of them.
They are precisely deciding who can scrape what by sitting in the middle of like 30% of internet traffic & denying access. There is no way to tell if this âscrapingâ is for research, hobby, commercial, or âAIâ purposes; conveniently if it can make Cloudflare money, theyâll let you charge a toll. If Cloudflare cared about AI issues, they wouldnât be having unpaid users solve/train their hCAPTCHA models just for visiting a site from Tor, a VPN, or even just a non-âWesternâ IP address. The fact that folks/businesses bought into this centralization is frighteningâwith little open access to information or allowing folks to stay anonymous (whatever their motivation).
Also donât dare call someone âdumbassâ if you canât be bothered to turn on spell check or understand how commas work.
themusicman@lemmy.world
on 24 Sep 2024 08:29
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Them being able to offer this service, and them proxying 30% of the internet are completely unrelated. Any other company could offer this scrape protection if they wanted, with roughly the same cost of entry.
You can hate cloudflare all you like, but only a certified dumbass would try to pretend this feature is somehow enabled by their market dominanceâŚ
A US corporation cornering the market then charging their own fees to use the service (surfing & scraping are basically the same action)? Never seen this before. Sounds uber evilâI couldnât airbnbelieve it.
âWe can scrape open internetâ is such a CEO take. Iâm no fan of Cloudflare but what theyâre doing here is good for open web and bad for AI bros
This assumes that just since abuse could happen means we should block access for everyone. Folks might make illegal photocopies of books so we should ban libraries. I & others have done general scraping for our own uses that isnât done in some abusive manner. But to assume a company beholden to US shareholder is going to âto the right thingâ would be to go against the history of US corporations.
And you know who is going to be able to afford to do the scraping? Big US-based âAI Brosâ that can do it with venture capital preventing the average user or researcher from grepping the net.
Good points, you made clear this is no black/white case, it depends on how much we can trust cloudflare. Itâs a US based for-profit company so the answer is ânot muchâ.
However, if you check the link, youâll see that theyâre able to distinguish AI bot scrapping from other forms of scrapping. They also give the website owners a choice, so if itâs about principles, owners can choose to boycott, as most are already doing with robots.txt, which AI bros have no respect for.
Cloudflare does not benefit from a handful of websites getting all the traffic, and their track record is good so far. They also donât profit from people visiting websites with a browser, they donât show/own ads. To me, they have enough credit for me to believe they can protect open web.
Weâll see how this take ages though. I still wonât put all my eggs in a single basket.
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CF needs some good PR after the gambling website stuff.
The what
i think he is talking about đ¤Ąstrike debucle from fee month back.No, its about CF taking down a gambling site (Reddit link)
This, and I think the firing of some ppl but might be confusing it
Debacle.
âdebucleâ is what happens before CF dry-humps you.
Debuckle is what my dad did before I got the belt
Whoever says parents arenât hitting their kids enough either werenât abused much as a child or were abused far too much. I was abused just enough to avoid ever having kids.
Or protecting jihadist websites? They have a pretty bad track record
Does that mean scraping without paying access to scrape it is circumventing a protection and so can be treated like cracked software/piracy of movies? /s
Why the /s?
Because this will never actually happen
Why do you believe that?
Because corpos donât pay
Do you want it to be?
Preferably. You do not?
Maybe something like fair-use for the common folk but any commercial product has to pay?
Technically itâs only for AI stuff, so honestly it doesnât matter if youâre doing other stuff
I guess if you canât beat them itâs the next best thing.
The gall of Cloudflare to think they can be the arbitrator of scraping⌠this is what happen when all yâall give a singular publicly-traded, US-based major control of the general internet infrastructure by purposefully letting them man-in-the-middle your production sites. Now they get to sell access to what was once an open internet. Instead every time Clouflare or Fastly go down, half of the internet goes down with them.
They donât think theyâre the arbitrer of scraping dumbass, this is a service theyâre selling to websites who donât want AI scrapers taking adnatage of them.
They are precisely deciding who can scrape what by sitting in the middle of like 30% of internet traffic & denying access. There is no way to tell if this âscrapingâ is for research, hobby, commercial, or âAIâ purposes; conveniently if it can make Cloudflare money, theyâll let you charge a toll. If Cloudflare cared about AI issues, they wouldnât be having unpaid users solve/train their hCAPTCHA models just for visiting a site from Tor, a VPN, or even just a non-âWesternâ IP address. The fact that folks/businesses bought into this centralization is frighteningâwith little open access to information or allowing folks to stay anonymous (whatever their motivation).
Also donât dare call someone âdumbassâ if you canât be bothered to turn on spell check or understand how commas work.
Them being able to offer this service, and them proxying 30% of the internet are completely unrelated. Any other company could offer this scrape protection if they wanted, with roughly the same cost of entry.
You can hate cloudflare all you like, but only a certified dumbass would try to pretend this feature is somehow enabled by their market dominanceâŚ
A US corporation cornering the market then charging their own fees to use the service (surfing & scraping are basically the same action)? Never seen this before. Sounds uber evilâI couldnât airbnbelieve it.
âWe can scrape open internetâ is such a CEO take. Iâm no fan of Cloudflare but what theyâre doing here is good for open web and bad for AI bros
This assumes that just since abuse could happen means we should block access for everyone. Folks might make illegal photocopies of books so we should ban libraries. I & others have done general scraping for our own uses that isnât done in some abusive manner. But to assume a company beholden to US shareholder is going to âto the right thingâ would be to go against the history of US corporations.
And you know who is going to be able to afford to do the scraping? Big US-based âAI Brosâ that can do it with venture capital preventing the average user or researcher from grepping the net.
Good points, you made clear this is no black/white case, it depends on how much we can trust cloudflare. Itâs a US based for-profit company so the answer is ânot muchâ.
However, if you check the link, youâll see that theyâre able to distinguish AI bot scrapping from other forms of scrapping. They also give the website owners a choice, so if itâs about principles, owners can choose to boycott, as most are already doing with robots.txt, which AI bros have no respect for.
Cloudflare does not benefit from a handful of websites getting all the traffic, and their track record is good so far. They also donât profit from people visiting websites with a browser, they donât show/own ads. To me, they have enough credit for me to believe they can protect open web.
Weâll see how this take ages though. I still wonât put all my eggs in a single basket.
theverge.com/âŚ/cloudflare-matthew-prince-internetâŚ
God damn it, stop seeing scrapers as a bad thing. If we rate limit, thereâs nothing wrong with scraping.
Another wall to try and make it so only the rich corporations can make AI, what a shock.
This is what all the useful idiots bleating against ai have been working towards.
There are models that have only used data with permissive licenses.