How the heck do I avoid Cloudflare when selecting a web host, please? I was considering getting a DigitalOcean “droplet” and running something in that, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be inside Cloudflare’s evil embrace.
I asked in what I thought was an obvious place but was met by bewildered looks.
I don’t think digitalocean forces you to use cloudflare.
I just want to know, what makes cloudflare that bad? i hear a lot voices telling that cloudflare is evil, but i heard no facts!. So what make people hates it this much?
Perpetual captchas and not letting people to log in or even viewing websites are examples of their hostility.
They’re a man in the middle for half the internet. They get all your form submits, including passwords and other personal info, in plain text.
I would look for a hosting provider that hosts servers outside a 5-eyes country (which is just about every western country, unfortunately). After doing A LOT of web searching I came across cloudsigma. They have servers in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. No, they haven’t paid me for this (although, cloudsigma, if you’re reading this…I’m your biggest fan!).
I get that they are huge but does that make it evil?
If Lemmy starts to get users and gets larger will that make it evil?
not necessarily, but more vulnerable
