It's been many years, and I am still angry and disappointed by Cloudflare's decision to block domain fronting and drop Lantern as a customer. Lantern was one of the most effective Great Firewall bypass proxies at the time, and Cloudflare was expanding in China. (I was at Cloudflare at the time, but I don't have private information on the deliberation. I strongly considered quitting over it, maybe I should have, but I was junior back then.)
The CEO even came on HN to try to frame it as an abuse mitigation, accusing Lantern of exploiting Cloudflare and arguing that they were not a customer. That was obviously false because you need to have a Cloudflare zone configured for domain fronting to work. They were a customer as much as the targeted hate websites they strenuously defend.
The CEO even came on HN to try to frame it as an abuse mitigation, accusing Lantern of exploiting Cloudflare and arguing that they were not a customer. That was obviously false because you need to have a Cloudflare zone configured for domain fronting to work. They were a customer as much as the targeted hate websites they strenuously defend.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9234367
Companies show their color in selecting who they will stand up for.