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by cmeacham98 1261 days ago
"mitm" strongly implies Cloudflare is somehow unauthorized, like they're slipping in and hijacking the connection.

I know why Cloudflare detractors use this type of intentionally misleading language, but can we maybe say something like "worlds largest _proxy_" that is more accurate?
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judge2020 1261 days ago
Maybe not even the largest proxy by volume. Akamai and Google Cloud load balancers serve bigger customers with comparable, if not more overall bandwidth. Cloudflare only puts out stats for "percentage of websites"[0], which includes all of the random blogs that get less than 1k views a day.

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...

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cmeacham98 1261 days ago
Fair enough, I was more focused on their misleading language and took the claim at face value.
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