"[Internet security CEO explained why his company exposed people to harassment, and suggested they should've used fake names](https://web.archive.org/web/20171024040313/http://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-ceo-suggests-people-who-report-online-abuse-use-fake-names-2017-5)" by [Julie Bort](http://www.businessinsider.com/author/julie-bort)
"[Zaradi hrošča iz Cloudflara več mesecev curljalo](https://slo-tech.com/novice/t694836/p5445996)" by [Slo-Tech](https://slo-tech.com/)
"[Everything You Need to Know About Cloudbleed, the Latest Internet Security Disaster](https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cloudbleed-the-lates-1792710616)" by [Adam Clark Estes](https://kinja.com/ace)
"[Cloudflare helps serve up hate online, says ProPublica](https://www.cnet.com/news/cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-online-per-propublica/)" by [Dong Ngo](https://www.cnet.com/profiles/ngodong/)
"[Web services firm CloudFlare accused by Anonymous of helping Isis](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/19/cloudflare-accused-by-anonymous-helping-isis)" by [Alex Hern](https://twitter.com/alexhern)
"[Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn](https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/)" by [Steven Johnson](https://www.wired.com/author/steven-johnson/)
"[Don’t Use Cloudflare Because You Impose This on People Who Least Want It](http://techrights.org/2019/02/17/the-cloudflare-trap/)" by [Dr. Roy Schestowitz](http://techrights.org/)
"[Cloudflare: The bad, the worse and the ugly?](http://webschauder.de/cloudflare-the-bad-the-worse-and-the-ugly/)" by [Alle Beiträge](http://webschauder.de/author/jw/)
"[Support End-to-End Encryption on the Web](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/03/support-end-to-end-encryption/)" by [Mark Maunder](https://www.wordfence.com/)
"[Why CloudFlare Is Probably A Honeypot](https://cypherpunk.is/2015/04/02/why-cloudflare-is-probably-a-honeypot/)" by [cypherpunk](https://cypherpunk.is/)
"[Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance](https://www.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361)" by [Jacob Appelbaum](https://twitter.com/ioerror)
"[Be careful with CloudFlare](https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/41cb4k/be_careful_with_cloudflare/)" by [no-idea-for-username](https://www.reddit.com/user/no-idea-for-username)
"[Cloudflare as a Security Risk - Support - Whonix Forum](http://forums.whonix.org/t/cloudflare-as-a-security-risk/2162)" by [entr0py](https://forums.whonix.org/u/entr0py)
"[How likely is it that CloudFlare is an NSA operation?](https://www.quora.com/How-likely-is-it-that-CloudFlare-is-an-NSA-operation/answer/Hamid-Sarfraz)" by quora
"[Cloudflare – The Asocial](http://asocialfz7ncw5ui.onion/articles/internet/cloudflare.html)" by [ASocial](https://theasocial.github.io/) [[mirror](https://theasocial.github.io/articles/internet/cloudflare.html)]
"#Cloudflare increases its MITM'ing of the web with a free #VPN for mobile. Best to avoid IMO." by @[sweepthenet](https://twitter.com/sweepthenet/status/1113086245159256066)
"Not playing the game is the best thing for anyone who wants to use the internet without being blocked." by @[Ares_CVR](https://twitter.com/Ares_CVR/status/1118429720515891200)
"VRChatのようなゲームはCAPTCHAフォームを受け取ることができないので、ブラックリストに捕まった人々は事実上ゲームをプレイすることができません。" by @[Meowkyway222](https://twitter.com/Meowkyway222/status/1118427292676476929)
"今日からなんか各地のサイトでCloudflareとかいうページが表示されてcaptchaのチェックをやたら求められるようになった" by @[yagamo54](https://twitter.com/yagamo54/status/1118115780984311809)
"So, you are actually putting the trust in a commercial provider that is already in a position to find out very private details about you?" by @[h3artbl33d](https://twitter.com/h3artbl33d/status/1112763751353200642)
"all web traffic is routed through CloudFlare - which is an adversary to privacy (MitM by design)" by @[h3artbl33d](https://twitter.com/h3artbl33d/status/1111982937707298816)
"Aren't Cloudflare themselves the biggest MITM around?" by @[auspicacious](https://twitter.com/auspicacious/status/1111500313259724803)
"This Cloudflare error is popping up on a ton of sites all of a sudden. It doesn't seem to be malware or anything..." by @[Eltalite](https://twitter.com/Eltalite/status/1118011155509682176)
"I MADE A BILL PAYMENT BUGGING IT OUT AND IT DOUBLE CHARGED ME CAUSE OF IT." by @[The_FoxGod](https://twitter.com/The_FoxGod/status/1118579858437578752)
"People find themselves met with a brick wall of endless captcha requests any time they try to go to a cloudflare-protected website, and they can't even submit a ticket to Cloudflare about it because they're protected, obviously. " by @[RiDakuYazumi](https://twitter.com/RiDakuYazumi/status/1118512842959929344)
"My IP was blocked by Cloudflare because I can't access a variety of websites without the CAPTCHA page showing up. I also can't play RuneLiteClient anymore." by @[MohamedMounib3](https://twitter.com/MohamedMounib3/status/1119654593867075586)
"Hey ProtonVPN some of your servers in PT are blocked by cloudflare" by @[brecke](https://twitter.com/brecke/status/1118896499121897474)
"Your support of Cloudflare's spyware and lies demonstrates that, again, you're either misguided or malevolent." by @[brettglass](https://twitter.com/brettglass/status/1119720600363261953)
"It wants to be a 'man in the middle' between you and the Internet, and between Web sites and the Internet." by @[brettglass](https://twitter.com/brettglass/status/1119721137263534081)
"I don't know why I was banned from access government website." by @[abidavid1199](https://twitter.com/abidavid1199/status/1119734124821057536)
"You've officially banned my country via CloudFlare's firewall. I honestly, sincerely hope your company goes bankrupt because this is pure bs." by @[ii0wii](https://twitter.com/ii0wii/status/1119520320703143941)
"I had a friend who got banned by cloudflare" by @[WhisperMute](https://twitter.com/WhisperMute/status/1118946685324070914)
"Hey guess what! i got ip banned by Cloudflare Woohoo!" by @[cearealkillas](https://twitter.com/cearealkillas/status/1118626896143511552)
"vrchat fucked up and ended up having bunch people banned from cloudflare so no one could login i cant even watch anime" by @[LoliGoddess_VR](https://twitter.com/LoliGoddess_VR/status/1118424623392202752)
"Imagine being so incompetent at networking that you get your users flagged for spam from cloudflare, you guys are a joke" by @[SilverTheFlat](https://twitter.com/SilverTheFlat/status/1118203335973244934)
"Cloudflare is trash, has always been trash, and will continue to be trash." by @[justkelly_ok](https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/897519768323768320)
"People are being blacklisted by cloudflare, and the fact that it's literally all down to the vrc devs, this will end with a lawsuit" by @[Retr0Fighter](https://twitter.com/Retr0Fighter/status/1118487667094765569)
"This little VRChat bug is banning people from actual millions of websites with very few convenient fixes." by @[RiDakuYazumi](https://twitter.com/RiDakuYazumi/status/1118514780652879872)
"DO NOT GO ON THE VRCHAT WEBSITE THEY WILL ALSO BLOCK YOUR IP" by @[ECW117](https://twitter.com/ECW117/status/1118477598202507265)
"Im so damn annoyed with this Cloudflare stuff" by @[styloVR](https://twitter.com/styloVR/status/1118545393158119425)
"Gonna quit VRChat for a bit to avoid a cloudflare ban. This isn't gonna end pretty for the dev team at all." by @[iamblssm](https://twitter.com/iamblssm/status/1118621746326675457)
"Cloudflare like to act as champions of free speech, but as soon as protections for free speech disappear, they all but rolled over and censored that speech." by @[ThisIsMissEm](https://twitter.com/ThisIsMissEm/status/1118390074557775872)
"I am stuck at an infinite loading screen trying to load the game. This has also caused my IP to be flagged by Cloudflare" by @[Etna_AD](https://twitter.com/Etna_AD/status/1118393520077901824)
"How do I fix the cloudfare from popping up. This has made it Impossible for me to even stream." by @[RealTypey](https://twitter.com/RealTypey/status/1118272161607749632)
"ISPs don't sell customer DNS data. Cloudflare is fearmongering in an effort to garner DNS traffic to spy on and sell its VPN" by @[brettglass](https://twitter.com/brettglass/status/1118202225715752960)
"You're lying about your paid product, too. VPNs don't protect privacy, because their exit nodes are easy for governments to monitor." by @[brettglass](https://twitter.com/brettglass/status/1118271101665255432)
"can you unflag my ip please. its actually stoping me from doing anything" by @[churchillvr](https://twitter.com/churchillvr/status/1118164231860432896)
"Seems like your Cloudflare waf rule is blocking me!" by @[JobinNixHive](https://twitter.com/JobinNixHive/status/1118242827731914754)
"Your Cloudflare config is being screwy & blocking my wife’s IP (which has been the same IP for over a year) which is screwing up her stream." by @[alexanderhanff](https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/1115660493669191680)
"Cloudflare's WAF blocking Googlebot. Is this accurate? Even this morning I woke up and noticed another page dropped" by @[madhacks](https://twitter.com/madhacks/status/1114577907114856448)
"You have Cloudflare on your website and you're blocking access from entire countries?" by @[dec23k](https://twitter.com/dec23k/status/1111961153742213121)
"hey Cloudflare, why do you suck so much? you've blocked my ability to use streamlabs while streaming." by @[Sam41gaming](https://twitter.com/Sam41gaming/status/1101413577796153344)
"I don’t want to select pictures with a car plate to read a fuckin article on web" by @[umurgdk](https://twitter.com/umurgdk/status/1116649566416162818)
"If you use 1.1.1.1, cloudflare will be able to snoop on what you do on the Internet." by @[neirbowj](https://twitter.com/neirbowj/status/1116545712668516352)
"It breaks a lot of things for me, like images stop loading on Twitter or some apps straight up don’t work." by @[ScottishBakery](https://twitter.com/ScottishBakery/status/1116673794855272449)
"Not just you. CloudFlare got interrupted a few times today." by @[guyothersome](https://twitter.com/guyothersome/status/1116471262132436994)
"1.1.1.1 prevents some apps from working, in particular I have problems connecting with the app" by @[SCRWD](https://twitter.com/SCRWD/status/1116291854759354371)
"First, you create a problem. Then, you pretend to solve that problem." by @[switch_d](https://twitter.com/switch_d/status/1116039082977533952)
"Tell eastdakota it's not nice to block me. He said in his YouTube interviews that #censorship is bad." by @[phyzonloop](https://twitter.com/phyzonloop/status/1067177577519898626)
"They want to be a single point of failure once again and they've already failed once" by @[wombatush](https://twitter.com/wombatush/status/1114464442794643461)
"This special treatment is inexcusable" by @[saleemrash1d](https://twitter.com/saleemrash1d/status/1114289465760075776)
"You are KILLING the #internet and aiding #surveillance agenda of #GAFAM and others" by @[Dr. Roy](https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1067299259593175040)
"The log file from your iOS app shows that you do track personal information" by @[holydevil](https://twitter.com/holydevil/status/1112769739045158912)
"Which part of the privacy policy allows you to share data with marketing crap" by @[thexpaw](https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1108424723233419264)
"Can you explain why I am blocked from accessing your site?" by @[Susan_Larson_TN](https://twitter.com/Susan_Larson_TN/status/1110207775311912966)
"Did my questions and comments hit a little too close to home so you BLOCKED ME?" by @[phyzonloop](https://twitter.com/phyzonloop/status/1109133085336047617)
"Why is your site blocking me?" by @[flarn2006](https://twitter.com/flarn2006/status/1107837140359094273)
"It's pretty bad as half the internet is behind Cloudflare." by @[Skyfusion89](https://twitter.com/Skyfusion89/status/1101600562355859456)
"Cloudflare has me blocked." by @[JacobyDave](https://twitter.com/JacobyDave/status/1095411772851474434)
"People really ought to stop using/trusting cloudflare. it's a disgusting centralized morally compromised CDN." by @[drwdal](https://twitter.com/drwdal/status/1113171715234902018)
"Please stop using Cloudflare's CDN. They blocked my IP" by @[actual_mishaor](https://twitter.com/actual_mishaor/status/1112285872311934976)
"Cloudflare is a threat to the internet, and makes it harder for visitors of your website to protect their right to privacy." by @[Mr. Jeff](https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/1105832648096862208)
"WTF! Just stop! Patreon Cloudflare and many others..." by @[umurgdk](https://twitter.com/umurgdk/status/1113323739221962752)
"I could not access the email because of cloudflare." by @[DouglasLindquis](https://twitter.com/DouglasLindquis/status/1115990146011344896)
"I have tried but API cannot be used because of Cloudflare" by @[miningpoolstats](https://twitter.com/miningpoolstats/status/1113810320710098944)
"Akamai states that 0.2% of Tor exit nodes had malicious requests, yet CloudFlare claims 94%" by @[musalbas](https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/717316725973389313)
"I'm starting to think that #CloudFlare is post-irony with their non-functional or just broken captchas" by @[ioerror](https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/715168927639343109)
"It gets even better. SOLVE ALL THE CAPTCHAS" by @[metabubble](https://twitter.com/metabubble/status/715206027793338368)
"CloudFlare is gathering the web and centralizes it, I don't see any good aspect in this" by @[fuolpit](https://twitter.com/fuolpit/status/715942023564550144)
"At work, a very large client had major issues due to cloudflare misconfig. Don't use CloudFlare." by @[Dr. Roy](https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1036861493155962881)
"Fuck me CloudFlare Captchas are just impossibly difficult. Yet to succeed tonight … are you trying to block people as well" by @[badlydrawnrob](https://twitter.com/badlydrawnrob/status/602964063308636160)
"So you intermittently block me from viewing sites on your platform, and refuse to even address my questions about it." by @[2012_04_28](https://twitter.com/2012_04_28/status/314180120518750209)
"Go away cloudflare, don't block me from my own website!" by @[liamgooding](https://twitter.com/liamgooding/status/115736397645746176)
"You successful manage to block me, and fail to display why" by @[kaareal](https://twitter.com/kaareal/status/42885552793595904)
"Requested a refund. You guys refuse to do so. Trying to call goes to voice mail and support by email give me lame excuses." by @[thenitai](https://twitter.com/thenitai/status/1116433441598451712)
"genau von denen bin ich wenig begeistert..." by @[r00tthebox](https://twitter.com/r00tthebox/status/1115627988924751873)
"Ist übrigens die IP-Adresse von Cloudflare für die Homepage der JusoSchweiz, die ihr das blockiert." by @[sacovo](https://twitter.com/sacovo/status/1093541275326910464)
"Dass CloudFlare selbst TOR blockiert, ist denen wohl nicht aufgefallen." by @[kamikazow](https://twitter.com/kamikazow/status/570943630539689984)
"Cloudflare blockiert TOR-Exit-Nodes." by @[schild202](https://twitter.com/schild202/status/557770010450726912)
"Sites on Cloudflare blocked me upon browsing. Please fix." by @[lino_almojuela](https://twitter.com/lino_almojuela/status/742721270861553665)
"Achievement Unlocked! Cloudflare has blocked me. Oh, whatever shall I do???" by @[thisisgab2](https://twitter.com/thisisgab2/status/1062518618087481345)
"It's blocked by Cloudflare for me" by @[motters](https://twitter.com/motters/status/723902453939339264)
"My access to all cloudflare websites seem to be blocked." by @[MrDHat](https://twitter.com/MrDHat/status/980777153116569600)
"CloudFlare doesn’t like me… I have been ‘blocked’ by CloudFlare…" by @[bryanbrake](https://twitter.com/bryanbrake/status/706958626154393601)
"CloudFlare would not and won’t let me connect to & open that link." by @[ZEPHYoRUS](https://twitter.com/ZEPHYoRUS/status/1085240244872597504)
"Torをホワイトリストに追加していてもブロックしてくるCloudflare" by @[CheenaBlog](https://twitter.com/CheenaBlog/status/1042413641449005056)
"CloudFlareのCDNをウイルスバスターがブロックしちゃって見れない" by @[_iro](https://twitter.com/_iro/status/734991531724017664)
"Error 520と表示されてページが見れない。" by @[halpas_blog](https://twitter.com/halpas_blog/status/843401976280829953)
"ここ数日ずっとCloudFlareのerror 522で見れない。" by @[usunekoserv_pub](https://twitter.com/usunekoserv_pub/status/689752546991181824)
"IT Cell found a way to secure their website: they banned French IPs" by @[fs0c131y](https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1110989388295467008)
"Cloudflare thinks I'm a robot and is blocking the most annoying preflight requests without letting me do a captcha." by @[enjalot](https://twitter.com/enjalot/status/1107085704591347712)
"Solving captcha puzzles for Google every single time due to your Cloudflare protection just ruins the whole experience." by @[chowdhuryrahul](https://twitter.com/chowdhuryrahul/status/1115132766603972609)
"I am unable to login to android app, tried using credentials, reinstalling app, nothing worked." by @[prasadthombre](https://twitter.com/prasadthombre/status/1112950318537625600)
"Cloudflare has traditionally thrown CAPTCHAs aggressively enough at VPN users to degrade the browsing experience." by @[mbarnath](https://twitter.com/mbarnath/status/1112969137389617152)
"Very few websites aren't using it meaning the majority of warp traffic is easily decrypted." by @[nathanielrsuchy](https://twitter.com/nathanielrsuchy/status/1113120866672525314)
"Cloudflare captcha is annoying af" by @[YourAnonNews](https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/762340768845598720)
"What’s up with the forced #CloudFlare captcha page today?" by @[Aybara](https://twitter.com/Aybara/status/1113462534172946432)
"CAPTCHA protest outside CloudFlare rightscon party!" by @[ageis](https://twitter.com/ageis/status/715353166666027008)
"The truth behind Google Captcha, Analytics, CloudFlare is Covert Espionage and Mass Surveillance." by @[Casey_Comendant](https://twitter.com/Casey_Comendant/status/1116417797007921152)
"Tor CloudFlare Captcha #TellASadStoryin3Words" by @[YrB1rd](https://twitter.com/YrB1rd/status/834539628791209984)
"CloudFlare is such trash, is there anything comparable that DOESN'T suck???" by @[radix42](https://twitter.com/radix42/status/834543824047190016)
"Your blog post wasn't worth the cloudflare captcha i solved to read it" by @[agentdero](https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/707293903418822656)
"Cloudflare's aggressive use of google captcha basically means the trade-off of using a vpn is training google's self-driving cars." by @[frnsys](https://twitter.com/frnsys/status/1072504815152959488)
"cfc;dr = cloudflare captcha; didn't read." by @[mrphs](https://twitter.com/mrphs/status/710867596959227904)
"Each time I fill out a Cloudflare captcha I grow slightly more suspicious that I may in fact be a robot..." by @[projectgus](https://twitter.com/projectgus/status/979152953297715202)
"Select grass, copy-paste text, click "not a robot", select storefronts. Not getting better." by @[shiromarieke](https://twitter.com/shiromarieke/status/785557109962317825)
"Getting the Cloudflare captcha for everything today!" by @[TheHodge](https://twitter.com/TheHodge/status/1009091924639322114)
"Tor user in Iran can't read content behind CloudFlare" by @[attractr](https://twitter.com/attractr/status/717790178786586625)
"I gave up after the text captcha step." by @[jordansissel](https://twitter.com/jordansissel/status/692508531455582209)
"Why don't you just commit to only using Tor Browser for all of next week and see what it's like for yourself?" by @[hdevalence](https://twitter.com/hdevalence/status/698967506057347072)
"Every time I have to do an image Captcha it's a dead giveaway that Cloudflare services are used." by @[StateExempt](https://twitter.com/StateExempt/status/1111613302914908160)
"I just encountered a site with a fake #Cloudfail#CAPTCHA dialog to trick people reflexively clicking on it." by @[Nin_99](https://twitter.com/Nin_99/status/1112174288323383299)
"You're making the use of your site pretty difficult for #TOR users." by @[Sebastian Bürgel](https://twitter.com/SCBuergel/status/1114492792875700225)
"I dislike Cloudflare they always block my VPN which I use to keep ads and trackers at bay" by @[nonesuchzach](https://twitter.com/nonesuchzach/status/782238922009042948)
"Ugh, anoying services. You block me because i use a VPN, WHY?" by @[_ruis_](https://twitter.com/_ruis_/status/827105441264054272)
"You now seemingly have every single IP block for PIA's VPN service in the US at least temporarily blocked via Cloudflare" by @[theonlymattlach](https://twitter.com/theonlymattlach/status/892201755035013121)
"Plz stop using Cloudflare.They block VPN and proxies ment to enhance our privacy." by @[claw137](https://twitter.com/claw137/status/892397825245536257)
"Your cloudflare-hosted site blocks my VPN so I can't even buy your VPN while using a competitor." by @[focusaurus](https://twitter.com/focusaurus/status/942968457909456898)
"Most use Cloudflare+CAPTCHAs to filter." by @[r0h1n](https://twitter.com/r0h1n/status/778788564519845888)
"TorGuard uses CloudFlare They are #antiprivacy and block #VPN users!" by @[SPC_Bitcoin](https://twitter.com/SPC_Bitcoin/status/702699563342106625)
"One large company (CloudFlare) deciding who can visit what." by @[OhNoItsFusl](https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/680144362773319681)
"So CloudFlare you block my surf because I'm behind a vpn protection?" by @[manuzful](https://twitter.com/manuzful/status/677474770867351553)
"Cloudflare is among the worst organisations I've seen from a privacy and security standpoint, same as Google, Facebook, et al." by @[amolith](https://masto.nixnet.xyz/@amolith/101919558389894089)
"I liked them until I saw #Cloudflare." by @[amolith](https://masto.nixnet.xyz/@amolith/101588202702599511)
"#Cloudflare #surveillance marketed as "fast"" by @[Dr. Roy](https://pleroma.site/objects/a24125f1-c3c3-4138-ad22-1fb9327b80c8)
"I wonder if the implied subtext is that YOU ARE THE FOOL for using these services. :-) " by @[MateJ](https://social.matej-lach.me/@MatejLach/101851464970639410)
"I dream of blocking #Cloudflare and #ReCaptcha" by @[Chuculate](https://niu.moe/@Chuculate/101834414084670347)
