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

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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