Comment by notorious_pgb

Comment by notorious_pgb 2 days ago

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This blog post is offensive to me on three levels:

1. It is clearly not written with a desire to actually convey information in a concise, helpful way.

2. It is riddled with advertisements for Cloudflare services which bear absolutely no relevance to the topic at hand

3. The actual point of the article (anonymous rate limiting tokens) is pointlessly obscured by an irrelevant use case (AI agents for some reason)

Of course, the second two points seem to be heavily related to the first.

This is barely any better -- in terms of respect for the reader's intelligence and savviness -- than those "Apple just gave ten million users a reason to THROW AWAY THEIR IPHONES" trash articles. Just slop meant to get you to click on links to Cloudflare services and vaguely associate Cloudflare with the "Agentic AI future", with no actual intention whatsoever of creating a quality article.

Thorrez 2 days ago

Cloudflare already does rate limiting. They explain in the article why their existing rate limiting solutions (IP, fingerprinting) don't work well with AI. That explains why they need a new solution.

  • notorious_pgb 2 days ago

    Well, not really. They've explained why their existing solutions don't work well for proxies / gateways, which cloud-based AI agents are an example of.

    • Thorrez 20 hours ago

      With normal proxies / gateways, the users have different browsers, so those can be fingerprinted. With the type of AIs under discussion in the post, the AIs all use the same exact browser version and environment, so fingerprinting cannot distinguish them.