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by nromiun 270 days ago
I actually looked at all the alternatives listed by the author. Here is the problem: none of them are competitive with Cloudflare. With Cloudflare you don't even need to provide a credit card, just setup with your website and it is "free" for lifetime.

They might pressure you to switch to paid plans if you start getting PBs of traffic, but until that point they will deliver your content for free. It is a huge advantage. Specially when you consider the egress pricing of major cloud providers.
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ranger_danger 269 days ago
It's a win for both sides... you get free protection/proxy service, and they get to MITM all your traffic.
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nromiun 268 days ago
That's like saying your cloud providers are stealing and looking at all your code. Technically you might be right but it is still somewhat disingenuous.

Not to mention all the alternatives are doing MITM anyway. So why single out Cloudflare?

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ranger_danger 268 days ago
> it is still somewhat disingenuous.

Depends on your perspective IMO... if I either think there is reason to believe they are spying on people for nefarious purposes, or if I do not want them to allow the government to spy on me without a warrant, I'd prefer they not have that ability to begin with, regardless of whether it's code sitting on the device or the web traffic that transits through them.

> So why single out Cloudflare?

Because I believe they have a much larger influence and percentage of traffic than all the alternatives combined, but you're right, they all have the same weakness and I would like a solution to it.

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