And other large parts of the internet are "MITMed" by AWS, Heroku, Microsoft Azure or other hosting companies then. For some reason people don't make the same argument in every thread about AWS though.
It's just my gut feeling, that CF might abuse its unique position, having access to large part of internet traffic in plaintext. What other CDN gives free services? Hint, why Google Analytics is free?
They are a CDN, they are storing data and delivering traffic under contract with the site owner. That's not strictly a hosting company, but that's pretty much irrelevant: They see traffic because the site owner has chosen and contracted them to provide a service that requires them to see traffic. The same way that traffic flows through AWS load balancers because the site owner configured that, or through the servers of a traditional hosting company because the site owner choose to host there.
One certainly can argue against Cloudflare specifically, or against centralization in general, but IMHO "they see traffic" isn't a very useful argument on its own.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22775065/cloudflare-add-...
It's just my gut feeling, that CF might abuse its unique position, having access to large part of internet traffic in plaintext. What other CDN gives free services? Hint, why Google Analytics is free?