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Opicaak

Please, tell your friends to stop relying on CloudFlare.

Why?

1) It's an intercepting proxy. All traffic is logged and shared (sold) to third parties - mainly the feds,

2) CF can inject a malicious payload,

3) CF adds unnecessary captcha to, inc but not limited to, privacy-aware visitors (VPN, TOR), or block them completely,

4) the internet is basically unusable with CF blocking browser addons,

5) If CF goes down, your website will go down, too. And yes, it does happen.

#fuck#cloudflare
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Cyb3rrunn3r :mastodon: ⭐️

@Opicaak Greatest Problem is: Without Cloudflare Internet is dead, cause nearly every fucking Page is using it. 🤬

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webhat

@Cyb3rrunn3r @Opicaak I'm following @mg which alerts me to boosting links to CF, I'm amazed by the number of small and large sites who use CF.

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Quincy

@Opicaak

and (important to stress): it's not necessary at all.

the only reason why people think it is is just good marketing ...

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Ryuno-Ki

@Opicaak 5 took down Discord and friends, too, didn't it?

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Opicaak

@RyunoKi, yes! Indeed, it did. Instead of improving uptime, it "DoS'd" Discord.

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Tenkoman

@Opicaak For many it is the cheapest and easiest option as a EPSS … even though a real EndPointSecuritySolution (e.g by Broadcom, Veeam or similar) can also be affordable and waaaaay less awful with tons of better features

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catfluoride :archlinux:

@tenkoman @Opicaak I use CF for my personal stuff, mainly to cut off access to my self-hosted services from come countries. What would be a similar free alternative (if it exists, of course)?

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Tenkoman

@catfluoride @Opicaak most „free“ are more trial versions of paid ones - like ESET‘s, Sophos‘ or Avast‘s.

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catfluoride :archlinux:

@tenkoman @Opicaak I see... So, maybe the most straightforward thing to do would be an allowlist on the "server" (a RPi4). A bit of a hassle, but hey, something I'm willing to spend my time on it. 😉

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Yann Büchau :nixos:

@Opicaak Thank you for this summary. I was always reading people hated cloudflare, but nobody stated reasons this concisely.

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Opicaak

@nobodyinperson, no problem! I believe it is important people understand the risks associated when using CF's services.

The issues don't stop there, though. Their DNS and VPN is very problematic, too. Similar reasons apply on top of their outrageous claim to make your internet faster with their VPN and DNS. It's very laughable.

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Jeremy List

@Opicaak Cloudflare defeats the entire point of using https instead of http. Cloudflare's captcha is very unreliable if you're not using Chrome or Firefox.

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Opicaak

@jeremy_list, and the web browser will happily lie that the connection is "secure."

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