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submitted 6 days ago by TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

Sad to see. We should all know cloudlfare decrypts our data before it reaches the service it protects. A perfect surveillance man-in-the-middle.

I was happy to find a home in the fediverse that uses Anubis instead.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

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[-] TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, I accept your apology. Anubis self-hosted and open source. I suppose you COULD use it between Cloudflare and your service, but why WOULD you?

[-] artwork@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

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[-] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

It's not OPs point at all, whether or not Cloudflare is good or best at DDoS protection.

This is like arguing that everyone should only shop on Amazon because they're cheapest and fastest.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago

OP asked "why WOULD someone" use it, not why should. I think their question was answered appropriately.

[-] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I accept your apology

Please log out of the internet and don't come back until you touch some grass and/or get laid

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why? They made an entirely irrelevant comment.

That they're proxies is not the issue, it's that with one you have to trust some company with all your traffic, while with the other you can use your own infrastructure.

We're in the privacy community here, suggesting cloudflare is just rediculous.

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