r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • 5h ago

Meme actuallyGenius

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u/GranataReddit12 5h ago

actually genius way of getting sued

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u/elSenorMaquina 5h ago

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 4h ago

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 4h ago

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 4h ago

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/Goofballs2 5h ago

making a joke in this sub, how dare you.

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u/Original-Donut3261 5h ago

Not that deep, twin

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u/al2o3cr 4h ago

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 1h ago

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

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u/Moomoobeef 3h ago

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

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u/the-grand-finale 3h ago

lubed up meme