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My guess is liability factor. If they get it wrong, massive liability on their side especially since someone could be like "I told you X" and Cloudflare didn't think the law applied or not.

Better to put onus on the customer.



This is already a fact of life: Amazon, Cloudflare, etc all manage blocklists for common patterns in firewalls, and many compliance standards (e.g. SOC2) pretty much require you to enable them. Mistakes are sometimes made in these things, but fairly certain that liability is covered by the ToS.


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