I am a plebe who doesn’t understand these things but what exactly does cloudflare do? I see it popping up more and more often redirecting before visiting a site. I assume that this has something to do with bot traffic? It seems like every mention of cloudflare is about how it ruined someone’s day.
You got any sources for that word vomit?
You could just say that you don’t know what a reverse proxy is.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/glossary/reverse-proxy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy
Cloudflare was born out of Project Honey Pot.
https://www.projecthoneypot.org/about_us.php
https://www.cloudwards.net/what-is-cloudflare/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
But today UnSpam is far from the only IP blacklist tracer on the Internet.
https://www.whatismyip.com/ip-address-blacklist-check/
https://seon.io/resources/ip-blacklist/
And allowlist and blacklist is part of Cloudflare services.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/ip-access-rules/
As for my personal situation, I have the receipts, but I have no desire to doxx myself today.
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