Title: Hello HN,<p>The TLDR; 10 days ago I was banned from Cloudflare allegedly for &quot;phishing&quot;. I have never phished, nor used Cloudflare to proxy illegal content.<p>I am a long time HN user but I created a throwaway account to avoid being linked to my employer.<p>10 days ago I got an email saying my account was suspended for &quot;phishing&quot;. I contacted Cloudflare support immediately and within 60 seconds I got a reply saying my account was permanently banned with no further information. I think this was an automated response. I followed up explaining my account had never been used for &quot;phishing&quot; and it hosted a number of small businesses and would they reinstate it. I never got a reply.<p>My downfall must been related to Cloudflare Workers. I used it to create some apps including proxies that modified mainstream news websites. They acted as uBlock + Stylish for locked down computers where I could not install browser extensions. I did not share these with anyone, but I did not secure them with HTTP auth. I didn&#x27;t think anyone could guess the xyz.abc.workers.dev URLs to access the proxies but automated software must have detected them and flagged them as phishing sites.<p>I was too clever for my own good, but I was not malicious, I did not abuse the Cloudflare platform and I never phished. I just created an application for my own personal use. I do not think any Clouldflare engineer looking at my Worker code would think it was malicious in any way. My account had current billing details and I was a paying customer in the past.<p>Lessons learnt: Don&#x27;t be clever and security is ALWAYS important.<p>I would like to continue using Cloudflare. I worry I will be banned from their other services. If I was blocked at an IP level, it would be far more devastating than being permanently blocked by Google.<p>If anyone can help me, even just to clear my name, I would very grateful to you.
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