https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14822482

Good points, you made clear this is no black/white case, it depends on how much we can trust cloudflare. It’s a US based for-profit company so the answer is “not much”.

However, if you check the link, you’ll see that they’re able to distinguish AI bot scrapping from other forms of scrapping. They also give the website owners a choice, so if it’s 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 don’t profit from people visiting websites with a browser, they don’t show/own ads. To me, they have enough credit for me to believe they can protect open web.

We’ll see how this take ages though. I still won’t put all my eggs in a single basket.

https://www.theverge.com/24121399/cloudflare-matthew-prince-internet-free-speech-8chan-ukraine-aristotle-decoder-interview

“We can scrape open internet” is such a CEO take. I’m no fan of Cloudflare but what they’re doing here is good for open web and bad for AI bros

The article feels like AI written

They can fuck each other and I’ll watch from mastodon

iOS pleb here…

I use it but not having a native app is a downer

The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well, and give a large amount to North Korea to fund their illegal programs.

So even if you do the work and do it well, you’re not allowed to spend your money how you see fit

Save the world by making openAI shareholders rich

That’s the thing, right? They’re fighting a very small minority of users blocking ads/tracking this hard

…like torrent?

Ball mice is better than laser mice since you can take out the ball and play with it

Apple?

So pet-enabled routers = routers with built in vpn support?

who even likes adverts?

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How often do you lend your drives to your friends? A cheap way to send big files without internet connection was paramount for sharing information.

Was going to tell you that she didn’t die in a model 3 but you found out yourself!

Lets ask the dead billionaire

I’m also against proprietary systems but is there an open alternative?

Those phrases are not common anymore but once was very common, among the corpus the llm is trained on (mid 20th century books)