Daily reminder that sites “protected” by cloudflare are effectively MITM attacks. HTTPS is now even more worthless. Cloudflare can see everything. this is a known fact and not a theory.

And if you think Cloudflare aren’t being tapped by the NSA, you’re sadly sadly naive.

All the “privacy respecting” sites use it too. So remember, as soon as you see that cloudflare portal page, you can assume that everything you plug into the site is property of NSA Inc. Trust no one, and do not trust code being served to you over the web if it comes through CF, there is no way to know what they’ve modified.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I explicitly block Cloudflare and Google domains fully, until and unless it is a website with no privacy repercussions or throwaway account possibilities. If it is something I legally purchase and requires their captcha, I can tolerate it unless I can avoid.

    People are too used to submitting or cucking themselves. I am not such a person.

    • Deebster@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      If you’re blocking everything that’s proxied via Cloudflare or hosted on Google, the internet must be a very small place for you. I think even a third of Lemmy is behind Cloudflare.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        I do not directly use Lemmy world or those instances. Their contents federate with Lemmy.ml instance.

        Moreover, only 22% of internet is behind Cloudflare. You missed the part where I said I refuse to use a Cloudflare service where there is no throwaway account possibilities or no privacy/anonymity repercussions. That is most of Cloudflare sites. I have encountered probably 20ish CF sites in my life according to my criteria where I had to avoid using them.

        • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I know how federation works, but look at the network inspector and you’ll see you’re pulling a lot of images from Cloudflare-proxied sites (or you’re missing a lot, if you’ve blacklisted them).

          Anyway, I only meant that even Lemmy, with its anti-corporate culture, is still heavily using Cloudflare. “Only” 22% is still a lot in my book.

          I’m interested as to your motives - are you doing this as a boycott, and/or to protect your privacy (or similar)? Also, are you blocking domains one-by-one, or are doing something like using firewall rules?