Discussion summary
Discussions about Cloudflare's features include criticism for enabling malicious content and copying competitors, alongside some praise for its utility.
What the discussion says
- Some users criticize Cloudflare for facilitating malicious activities like phishing.
- Others appreciate its ease of deployment and protective features.
- There are concerns about copying successful projects and lack of transparency.
“Cloudflare has the astonishing ability to make me hate them more as a company every new feature they launch.”
“Cloudflare is really good at launching features that facilitate low-friction deployment of malicious content.”
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- Cloudflare gives me mixed feelings. The services are good and well priced. What bothers me is that they've become infrastructure nobody opted into - you don't have an account, you just pass through their network on the way to a large share of what you visit. They terminate TLS, so it's plaintext on their side.
- Cloudflare is obviously more trustworthy/robust here, but if name of the url matters to you, my site non.io [1] allows for named uploads, ie https://html.non.io/solara [2]
Somewhat useful if you want a url that isn't a hash / is more self descriptive.
[1] Launch discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695
[2] This was a demo of the output of a design tool I'm working on, only the home/accommodations/about pages work.
by jjcm - > No account needed. Deployment is active for 60 minutes, then expires unless you claim it.
- There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.by Bender
- They had a short blog post about this:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-08-...
by altbdoor - Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.by jonluca
- Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop
- Does nobody read the fineprint?
By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content.
If you're ok with that, fine. But I'm not.
by karlkloss