That's what is so funny about the whole Cloudflare thing. They were under immense pressure, and they "dropped" KF by terminating DDoS protection services and refusing to act as the domain registrar.
And yet... here I am in October 2022:
- Using Cloudflare's DNS to resolve kiwifarms.net
- Browsing the site using Cloudflare's WARP VPN
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That's right, Cloudflare is offering a service that not only tells you computer how to resolve the KF address, but actually takes your browser's HTTP requests and helpfully encrypts and routes the traffic over their Internet backbone FOR FREE.
KF is flowing over the Cloudflare network just like before. What has changed? Cloudflare might refuse to be the authoritative source for Cloudflare DNS records, but they will happily find out who is and ask them. They will then cache that answer and resolve the IPs for you. Cloudflare might refuse to host KF data directly, but they will gladly honor your request to access it -- freely shuttling KF packets back and forth across their network.
And the best part? They can't really do anything about it without breaking their business model. Cloudflare leaned into the whole "net neutrality" thing. They've spent years advocating for private, encrypted DNS requests as a means to prevent pesky ISPs and government censors from blocking certain websites or privileging certain content. The've waged massive PR campaigns stating that the Internet must remain free and that traffic must flow freely. They even formed the Bandwidth Alliance to promote this goal.
Recently, they've been aggressively pushing WARP in order to capture as much Internet traffic as possible in order to further these ends. By blocking this traffic to KF they would become just like the evil ISPs they have been fighting against. They would not only fundamentally break the principles of the Internet, but validate the approach of countries like China/Russia.
So I hope this fact comes to the attention of the Drop KF campaign. Because it presents the ultimate Catch-22 for Cloudflare, and any further capitulation along this front would completely undermine their own claims to legitimacy. I sincerely hope Cloudflare somehow tries to block KF from their network -- it would be the ultimate own goal for the company. But until then, I suggest that all farmers take advantage of Cloudflare's free VPN services.