Context?
My feed has been all about posts like this one https://programming.dev/post/14669153
If yours hasn’t you’re missing some stupid flame wars and nothing of value.
That makes sense, I don’t subscribe to !technology@lemmy.world and only ever check ALL if there’s an emergency or I’m logging into a fresh install of Sync.
Where does online sports “betting” fit into this meme? Genuine ask because I have no experience or awareness of online casinos. Thanks.
They usually go hand in hand.
Generally if it’s connected to gambling there’s scummy stuff going on.
That was number 13. Online casinos.
Both can be true?
Yup
Cloudflare is a business. Businesses protect their profits. Online casinos are scams subject to regular massive DDOS by their scumbag competitors and by people who want them shut down. Cloudflare wasn’t going to eat that loss anymore so they kicked them to the curb to save money. Also the time frame wasn’t 24 hours. More like a month. This makes me suspect the scamming casino’s story more.
Cloudflare is a business. Businesses protect their profits
You say that like it’s ok to do shitty things as long as “you’re a business protecting profits”
I say that like its the way things are.
That wasn’t it, Cloudflare didn’t like they way the casino was using Cloudflare’s IPs, since they were getting banned in multiple countries.
Cloudflare only offers byoIP as part of a business package, and that comes with extortionate pricing.
I’m staying out of this
What exactly has Cloudflare done to those poor casino thugs, they were only trying to extract more money from gambling addicts?!?
Only two buttons and you got five fingers. Math>you
I won five grand from an online casino in 2001, and they not only paid me my winnings, they also included an extra $262 in comps for having bet aggregately over a quarter of a million dollars. That money went a long way for my early-20s ass. Paid off a credit card and bought a new mattress for me and my new wife.
When Full Tilt Poker got shut down by the DOJ, though, I was sort of okay with it. There were waaaaay too many action flops for those hands to have been truly randomized.
Nice! A topical meme relevant to today’s top Lemmy story!
Fuck CloudFlare – I don’t like monopolies or monopolike.
I was reading the blog post by the casino’s tech person and kept thinking to myself, “this is a casino; they may not be the most reliable narrator”. That said, CF was also stupid slow on taking down kiwi and stormfront, so they’re not great either.
Both of them suck and this whole thing is amusing to me. Hopefully this will serve to improve CF’s behaviour.
What was kiwi?
