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Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page

16 points by basilikum ago | 6 comments

https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20261112125921/https://abuse.cloudflare.com/

When you want to report abuse to Cloudflare they tell you here to use a form that is actually just a completely blank page: https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/

Bender |next [-]

It is not blank for me. Each category brings up a structured form.

basilikum |root |parent [-]

I got it to load exactly once now. Every other time the page is just completely blank. It does give a 200 status code however.

Edit: I can get it to load a category selector randomly on some requests. But once I select a category I am thrown back to a blank page.

basilikum |next |previous [-]

Related: "Someone's Impersonating This Blog" from three hours ago — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50488664

The blog post mentioning this is how I stumbled over this. Cloudflare hosting lots of very clear abuse and not handling reports timely is nothing new, but just deleting the report form altogether is new.

gnabgib |root |parent [-]

You misread that blog.. the form isn't blank.

> Click "Submit an abuse report" and it'll take you to a completely blank page.

A blank submit-result page isn't indicative it isn't working either, although it's not a great UX (if true). Also note the footnotes show Robin has JS turned off breaking other simple sites, which could also be the cause.

basilikum |root |parent [-]

> It's hosted with Cloudflare, and the abuse reporting form they insist you use straight-up doesn't work. Click "Submit an abuse report" and it'll take you to a completely blank page. Very encouraging.

That is exactly my result as well.

Edit: Unless I'm tripping you edited your comment after my reply. This is not about the result page. The form page itself is completely blank and I have JS on.

yasirkhan001 |next |previous [-]

It is not blank for me

onetokeoverthe |previous [-]

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