I don’t remember exactly, but it would have been on the Atari 2600. Probably Pac-Man or Q-Bert.

Right, but it’s possible to execute those API requests to trigger those expensive database requests in a way that wouldn’t necessarily trigger cloudflare’s DDoS protection.

They explained that the attacks are in the form of requests that tax the database server, not the website itself.

I’ll add another vote for FreshRSS. I’m on iOS, but I like the web app a lot.

• Bitwarden
• FoxyProxy
• DuckDuckGo
• AdBlocker Ultimate
• Privacy Badger
• LocalCDN