That’s what they are doing. This is a textbook protection racket.
reply“Buy Cloudflare bot protection, otherwise it would be a shame if your site got scraped and ddos’d.”
Who is doing the scraping and ddosing? Cloudflare.
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replyThat's too funny. If true, really looking forward to the Cloudflare response here. I'm unsure how you would spin that in a way that didn't seem self-serving.
replyI imagine that would cause a backlash from the website owners trusting cloudflare to keep their content 'safe'
replyPlease tells me you are joking
replyWait. What?
replyIs this just a way to strong-arm non-cloudflarians into adopting their platform if you don't want your site crawled? It does sound like they are selling the solution to avoid their own content crawler.
As long at it gets past Azure's bot protection ...
replyCame here to write this. I am getting much better results from Firecrawl (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer).
replyfuck firecrawl. they copied my idea by showing interest in my product and then copied it, used their YC money to give it all out for free. fuck nick in particular. I'm still salty over this
reply"they copied my idea by showing interest in my product and then copied it". What exactly is revolutionary about Firecrawl or your product? Scraping APIs have been around for over a decade.
replyTell more. Crawling is not a new idea. How did they abuse you?
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