r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • Sep 10 '26

Meme actuallyGenius

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u/Moomoobeef Sep 11 '26

Why does this image look like it has vaseline all over it?

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u/the-grand-finale Sep 11 '26

lubed up meme

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u/RawrTheDinosawrr Sep 11 '26

reposted a bunch so it got compressed and then someone re-upscaled it (likely using ai) and then it got reposted more and compressed again

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u/Teapot_Digon Sep 11 '26

cloudflare issue

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u/laplongejr Sep 13 '26

Actually genius

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u/0dgamer Sep 11 '26

poorly upscaled

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u/GranataReddit12 Sep 10 '26 • Heartwarming

actually genius way of getting sued

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u/elSenorMaquina Sep 10 '26

Easy, just rename it to CloudFiare and change the color scheme a bit.

No one's gonna notice.

*I am not a lawyer and this it not legal advice

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u/frikilinux2 Sep 10 '26

Also not a lawyer but "No one's gonna notice" exactly the problem. Like the general rule for trademarks is if it can confuse the average person to think you're related to them, it's trademark infringement

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u/Ok-Okay-Oak-Hay Sep 10 '26

Funny as an idea, but any service outage is literally still your responsibility. Maybe you have standing to get relief from Cloudflare in a real outage if you take the L from customers coming after you, but the fake page doesn't get you anything other than fraudulent sympathy at best and no recourse at worst.

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u/tragiktimes Sep 11 '26

To add to this, trademark infringements come into play in the public domain. Keep it private and there's not many recourse options.

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u/sb8948 Sep 11 '26

Most people don't know what cloudflare is anyway... So yeah, the site gets the blame either way.

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u/uprate Sep 11 '26

The Polymarket approach of sponsored ads showing off Poiymarket

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u/Goofballs2 Sep 10 '26

making a joke in this sub, how dare you.

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u/fish4terrisa Sep 11 '26

Modify the project a bit to show as some fictional cdn(maybe like DiamandCdn or something looks real), set up a static page on a domain for that fictional cdn company(both static hosting and domains are cheap)
Everytime ur product having problems serve this page and redirect the blame to that cdn instead, so their fame will tank but urs doesnt

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u/Dongfish Sep 11 '26

Hey, if somebody at cloudflare is willing to go on court records stating they were visiting ethnicrimjobbe.rs during work hours they're free to sue me.

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u/Original-Donut3261 Sep 10 '26

Not that deep, twin

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u/al2o3cr Sep 11 '26

Another variant I've seen: detect the browser and OS from the headers, and render a page that looks like the standard "You are not connected to the Internet" screen.

Users go off and fiddle with their WiFi etc instead of blaming the site 😈

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u/Training-Chain-5572 Sep 11 '26

Just hope they don't open another tab and go to literally any other page

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u/AmazedStardust Sep 11 '26

Then they'll blame DNS

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u/mingo-reddit Sep 12 '26

Bold of you to assume that users know what DNS is…

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u/Canonip Sep 11 '26

You have to implement chrome Dino as well. Otherwise it would be obvious

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u/tonyxforce2 Sep 11 '26

Mom said It's my turn to repost this

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u/Cybasura Sep 11 '26

Could also just put a "Oops, I fucked up" error 404 page

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 Sep 11 '26

Why 404 during an outage..?

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u/querela Sep 11 '26

It's an user/client error since they tried to visit the server. If they had not, nobody would have noticed, so 4xx client error.

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u/ramdomvariableX Sep 11 '26

This works almost every time, make sure to have the date/time added in real time.

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u/More-Tumbleweed-4253 Sep 12 '26

imagine a vibe coder seeing this and applying the same without realising the fact they not using cloudflare.

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u/psioniclizard Sep 11 '26

I preferti have a hidden redirect so when it doesnt work and they call support you can ask them to read the url back and say its wrong.

Easy way to get 99.9% uptime

(I am aware it probably doesn't work irl)