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this might be a AI driven attack and readthedocs was just a test target.

What surprised me is how easy it was to evade the cloudflare defenses. I know it was easy to evade CF, but I would expected CF to do a better job at blocking L7 DDOS.

CF is really good in defending against the L4 DDOS, but not L7.

this means that cloudflare is really not useful much in the era of Agentic DDOS driven by thousands agents across the globe

Cloudflare is totally worthless actually. It is trivial to evade any part of it.

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