Comment by htfr on Sorry for the downtime, looks like we got DDosd · 2024-12-03T17:09:58.212Z · LW · GW

If you have the developer time for it, have you considered building a cryptocurrency-based firewall? Pay $1 to whitelist your IPv6 range in the firewall.

What to do with non-whitelisted IPs is up to you, you could limit the bandwidth for them.

I suggest this because the endgame of the IP address doxxing performed by companies like cloudflare is the death of anonymity on the internet. Each ISP has a finite IP range and a finite number of optical fiber cables, so there's only so many times someone can change their IP address.

(Sure the NSA probably knows who you are anyway, but IP ranges mapped to real names by random companies are eventually going to end up sold on the dark web to basically anyone with money.)