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I, Asukadomo Type VIII, issue a fatwah on Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare. He pretends to be part of the infosec scene while he's actually just a lawyer. He isn't even a real lawyer, just a dropout. He conveniently invokes either identity when he needs to appeal to one side. He has single-handedly blocked Tor, VPN, etc from the internet, for 11 years without rest, by making a trendy webshit as a service that blocks Tor by default, requiring each website admin of a Cloudflare-backed website to overcome philosophical and technical hurdles to even realize this is a problem and to fix it by configuring Cloudflare properly. In the above, he violated the end-to-end networking principle. For the vast majority of these 11 years he used ReCaptcha, the most broken piece of soykaf captcha on earth (which blocks Tor over 50% of the time). It could only be solved by all kinds of tricks like disabling JS which itself raises more red flags on the website that acts like a paranoid retard. If you are blocked by a Cloudflare-backed website, say "somewebsite.com", you have to fill out a ReCaptcha (and then a second one to access "cdn.somewebsite.com"). Each of these steps takes multiple minutes. If you're doing some research it will take hours just to do what took 10 minutes before Cloudflare was invented. Due to the above, many billions of man hours were wasted browsing websites over Tor, VPN, offices, universities, cafes, etc, due to his broken dipshit idea of blocking "hackers" by IP and making them solve a captcha. In the above, he violated the purpose of a captcha: to throttle bot comment posts (and similar use cases). There is no other purpose for a captcha, and none would be acceptable. "Thing that stops my site from being rooted" is not a valid use case for a captcha. If you just put a captcha somewhere and only justify it by your opinion, you deserve DEATH. A captcha is not something that can be taken lightly, in network protocol design. He was given high levels of authority, and abused it. He has single-handedly fabricated a new concept where a website just gives you a captcha because you might be trying to hack it according to some heuristic which almost always gives false positives. Let me state this again: websites did not require a captcha for viewing content before Cloudflare. Not one single website. Dumbass kids getting into webdev now think a captcha gate on the front page is a thing, thanks to Matthew Prince. If you put a captcha on your website anywhere other than a comment or signup form, you are just a nudev eating feces downstream from Matthew Prince. While implementing all the fuarrrkery above using webdevs (AKA retards), he created the CloudBleed security vulnerability, which caused all of his client bank websites to leak user credentials literally all over the web. Cloudflare no doubt has more of such vulnerabilities, which were obvious and predictable even long before he disclosed Cloudbleed. He claims that websites are properties, by consistently calling them "web properties", thereby aligning the web as some sort of real estate market where the land owners can sue / jail anyone for made up reasons just like the entertainment industry does with DMCA (or just like land owners do to anyone and everyone for bullshit like "hanging around"). When in reality the internet is just for lulz. He aligns his philosophy of attacking users when it has a 0.000000001 cent cost to the "web property" with liberal politics. So if you argue that blocking Tor is fuarrrking retarded and pointless, you are labelled a nazi by the left wing sheep. He got rid of 8chan because it was too far from the left - it allowed people to say things without "moderation" (actually it had heavy moderation and /tech/ was complete center). But 8chan made the mistake of not hiring N employees to "moderate" every single thing a user ever posts, and so /pol/ was allowed to exist with its 5 users, and then Tarrant posted his manifesto there. He then tried to formalize his reasoning as "8chan does not uphold rule of law", which means absolutely nothing, but he thought he was real smart for using a phrase he got from his half assed law degree. In reality, he just kicked off 8chan because it was not left wing enough. It did not ban people for saying "nigger". He has centralized most of the internet. He MITMs every user of his service. He grants this access to the NSA. Not maybe, he does. Just like before Snowden, it was obvious before it was "revealed". He started off his business by showing how he thwarted a gorillian pedobyte DDoS attack, which has left a mythos in the average script kiddie that "cloudflare is the only way to stop DDoS". On the contrary, what they actually sell to businesses is snakeoil like "blocking hacker IPs", and "blocking scapers", which is another nail in his coffin because the only fuarrrking use the web has is for being scraped. It's literally impossible to use any website made after 2001 without a bash script to retrieve its contents and display it in a terse form. On top of all of this, he protects child porn, piracy, and scam websites by obscuring their ownership as well as protecting them from DDoS, citing free speech and such while still terminating sites like 8chan. This glitterboy's net worth is 8 billion dollars from making a glorified CDN any stupid fuarrrking techie kid could (and did) back before 2010. There is a cult surrounding this absolute hack of a company. Cloudflare is run by people who do not even understand the most basic engineering principles, who repeatedly show this by explaining how after N years they figured out how to do something previous net companies were already doing 10 years before them. If you say anything bad about Cloudflare you are automatically downvoted on HN and some glitterboy you're conversing with in a SF cafe will raise his eyebrow like you're one of "them". I'm not saying "bad" as in you called them niggers. I'm saying, if you even disagree with any single technical choice they made, or prefer some other company for one of their services. Kill Matthew Prince. Behead Matthew Prince. Roundhouse kick Matthew Prince into the concrete. Slam dunk Matthew Prince as a baby into the trash can. Crucify Matthew Prince. Defecate in Matthew Prince's food. Launch Matthew Prince into the sun. If you delete this post you're gay.

ok, cloudflare is soykaf. now what? >If you delete this post you're gay. if you had to put this in your post, you know you did something wrong. your post is low quality and hyperbolic at best.

i just wanna point out that while I agree that the web has gone downhill, that one photo that compares web then and web now uses terrible examples as wikipedia still looks exactly like that.

Fatwa noted but i don't think he'll come to my part of the globe any time soon. I fully support your declaration

I too think more people should call out cloudfler and their bs.

>>71808 i hate doing the fuarrrking captchas when using a vpn. fuarrrk cloud flare for that yeah.

It's worrying is how stuff like cloudfare could render tor practically useless. Anyone anonymizing would find themselves locked off most major websites. Its like a caste system for internet users.

>>71951 The web is not a real medium. It's amazing how "top" vendors like Mozilla still haven't fixed their broken soykaf fullscreen doing the most retarded glitchy looking pointless animation on earth every fuarrrking time which absofuckinglutely nobody ever asked for and the alt key that changes the focus to the menus. Web browsers are such garbage software and they were NEVER good. They can't even do UI design properly which they pretentiously pretend to be experts at.

>>71956 >fullscreen doing the most retarded glitchy looking pointless animation about:config full-screen-api.transition-duration.enter = 0 0 full-screen-api.transition-duration.leave = 0 0 full-screen-api.delay = -1 full-screen-api.timeout = -1 >the alt key that changes the focus to the menus ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses = false >Web browsers are such garbage software and they were NEVER good sorry to hear you're too young to have experienced Opera <=12 but maybe you can find peace in luakit, nyxt, qutebrowser, vimb, vieb, etc.

>>71956 >>71957 >>71966 My dude... welcome... >https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/qutebrowser

>ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses = false holy fuarrrk its like I had a cast on for 15 years and now its removed.

apparently you can use F10 to open the menu items which would be inaccessible otherwise, a conundrum mozilla created in 2007 or some year around there when they decided having a menu like a normal application is a problem somehow (probably for vertical real estate reasons, which is ironic since they next they just made tabs and the address bar more bulky)

oh i see you can also right click in the tab bar and select the "menu bar" text box to make it always shown

>>71966 >>71973 what the heck happened to browser.tabs.animate????? it used to let you disable the animation when creating a new tab or closing one. did they really go out of there way to make it even more aids?

>>71966 >Opera Insecure garbage written by typical pepega yuppies (just like the rest of the browsers). Went from failed idea of selling a browser to serving ads based on what you're viewing even with google ads at some point. AKA spyware. From 1999 they had every security vulnerability under the sun, indicating that the product was indeed NEVER good. Yes it was fast but that doesn't matter for the previous two reasons as well as the web itself being slow fundamentally because of soykaf web pages made soykaftier by the specs being soykaf that nobody can follow properly except an autist so dense that he thinks spending hundreds of hours to make his small site less bad changes the world. The web is Eich's armpit. Stop trying to find anything good in a soykafhole. >Qutebrowser Some vim/emacs tranny bullshit with not nearly the required manpower for the task and of course xhe could not delineate the browser from the content so to none of my surprise there was a vulnerability where a page could hijack the browser (CVE-2018-10895). >full-screen-api.transition-duration.enter = 0 0 >full-screen-api.transition-duration.leave = 0 0 >full-screen-api.delay = -1 >full-screen-api.timeout = -1 This got rid of the transition when fullscreening a video but not F11. Had to use "1 1" instead of "0 0" (which was default?) and then it still goes black for a second. EDIT: WAIT NVM LOL IT JUST DOES RANDOM SHIT. This also gets rid of the fullscreen notification which I was fuarrrking trying to figure out back in 2015 jesus christ mozilla are such decrepit trannies incapable of anything, their whole cleverness here is a fuarrrking joke, you niggers haven't fuarrrking saved anyone from the small irrelevant phising use case you have in mind. Thank god I now never have to see that soykaf again for the one video I view every 2 months in the soykafhole web. >ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses = false Didn't know about this, thanks. I just discovered this bullshit hidden setting (that never worked for me before works now for some reason), it disables tab animation AND the F11 fullscreen animation (but not the video full screen animation): ui.prefersReducedMotion 1 Of course it's called "prefers reduced motion" like I'm some kind of snowflake with special sensitivities. Of course this has the side effect of disabling the loading animation on tabs as if I'm some kind of sped who goes around saying "animation bad" rather than just acknowledging the fuarrrking issue here which you're too dense to comprehend which is that transitions which slow down the user for no fuarrrking reason are brain dead moronic marketing salesman glitterboy nigger soykaf which was NERVER a valid practice. So now I can't tell if a tab is loading. Inb4 some glitterboy dipshit chimes into this thread "acktchually, I'm an expert on full screen API did you know video full screen is just a subset of the full screen API", while ironically this is just broken because a static video element on a non-JS page should just be able to fullscreen as if the browser dev had creen notification which I was fuarrrking trying to figure out back in 2015 jesus christ more brains than a rat and could delineate the browser from the content. Oh and the fullscreen still does a bunch of glitchy bullshit on the way instead of just instantly transitioning. YOU STUPIUD NIGGERS DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MOST BASIC fuarrrkING META OF THE WEB WHICH IS THAT 99.99999999% OF WEBSHTIES HAVE SO MUCH fuarrrkING SPAM SO OF COURSE IM GONNA HIT F11 DONT MAKE IT SLOWER YOU DIPSHIT LITTLE COCK SUCKER USELESS NEWGRAD SCUM wait wtf, now sometimes adding/removing tabs is animated but sometimes not??????????????????????????????????????????? and it also websites are allowed to query "prefers-reduced-motion"?????????? HOLY fuarrrk PLEASE DIE ALREADY okay now i give up and thank you for proving my point firefox and its forks are absolute dog soykaf.

>>72052 btw what i had to do to remove the full screen warning was this: full-screen-api.warning.timeout 0

>>72052 You are very angry I am seeing all this from the vantage point of my delightful and comfy qtbrowser CVE is 5 years old, also Anything mozilla-like only tbb can be of use to a lad and all the issues you're whining about aren't present here, like >fullscreen still does a bunch of glitchy bullshit on the way instead of just instantly transitioning Qb has no animation for that. So I guess it takes a tranny browser to 'instantly transition' into fullscreen ;) You're obviously hot under the collar, another poweruser with stringent ergonomic demands. But of course you'll probably recommend palemoon or some meme soykaf lmao

>qtbrowser You could as well recommend some epiphany or links.

>>72052 >Some vim/emacs tranny bullshit uhm im pretty sure thecompiler just has long hair because hes like, cool or something. not a tranny.

>>72052 >>72052 Yes I hate useless animations too and I also remember feeling patronized by the wording of the "prefers reduced motion" option. I also remember being this angry at everything all the time but I couldn't tell you what changed it, unfortunately. It doesn't help that it wasn't just a discrete period of being angry followed by a cleanly separated period of being serene or whatever. Very interspersed. Anyway try setting toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true (if it doesn't exist create a new boolean). In about:support get the Profile Directory, in this directory create chrome/ if it doesn't exist, then in chrome/userChrome.css do: #navigator-toolbox[fullscreenShouldAnimate] { transition: none !important; }