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https://lobste.rs/s/toxu4r/intermittent_503s_on_cloudflare_s_free#c_cnzqri
The centralization that actors like Cloudflare embody isn't some nefarious plot, but simply market responses to utter lack of DDoS protection in the so-called "decentralized" web.
In fact, a lot of the perceived evils of the "modern web" are simply responses to bad actors. Why is Gmail so dominant? Because a centralized webmail service is much better at detecting and filtering spam. Microtransactions didn't take off in part because payments over the internet were perceived as insecure - which paved the way for ad services.
And of course, a proposed network that had built-in DDoS and spam prevention would probably be seen as unacceptable privacy-invasive, as each and every packet could be traced back to an "authorized" sender.
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