The Cloudflare Outage and the Dependencies We Never Mapped
Two days ago, November 18th, 2025, Cloudflare went down. And with it, a significant chunk of the internet stopped working. X (formerly Twitter) became inaccessible. ChatGPT threw errors. Shopify stores went dark. McDonald’s self-service kiosks displayed the dreaded “Cloudflare Error” message. Even DownDetector—the site people visit to check if things are down—couldn’t load because it also relies on Cloudflare. […]
