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by cookiengineer 2104 days ago
What worries me is that Cloudflare is deanonymizing a huge load of TOR users, and the issue that comes with it is that a huge part of TOR users actually needs access to the web archive due to country-wide DNS censorships (European countries included).

As Cloudflare is deanonymizing TOR users pretty much with every website that's hosted on it, I fear they are abusing that power once again to deanonymize users of the web archive.

Cloudflare always claims it's not their issue and that it's a webmaster setting with the shitty captchas and Google's infamous Prism-sponsored PREFS cookie - but to be honest they should just not have implemented it in the first place if privacy was a core value of their company.

The "DDoS" protection basically fingerprints a machine and user inside an encrypted HTTPS connection; which makes the encryption tunnel itself obsolete.