Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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I'd be interested to see if / how Cloudflare will respond to this. Because at this point I'm not 100 percent sure who is in the right.

Yeah I have no sympathy for a casino and as a software developer I would never work for one, but in the other corner you have a company with too much power.

Even if it wasn't a casino, they could either be bullshitting or just be plainly incompetent. Like, idk them personally, but I wouldn't rule it out lol