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   Daniel Hernández (daniel@mstdn.degu.cl)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 21:19:46 JST Daniel Hernández

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @domo @cwebber Is it because Cloudflare is based in the US?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 21:19:44 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @daniel @domo It is because:

     - Cloudflare is centralization
     - Cloudflare breaks accessibility
     - Cloudflare blocks tor and many VPNs
     - Cloudflare is a Man-in-the-Middle attack
     - Cloudflare's primary mechanism for verifying whether or not you're a "valid user" is surveillance

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     Evan B🥥ehs (eb@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:02:05 JST Evan B🥥ehs

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber @daniel @domo

     > is centralization
     The unfortunate reality of DDoS protection is it requires vast amounts of compute to absorb, which mandates centralization
     > breaks accessibility
     How?
     > blocks tor
     That’s an option for site administrators. Cloudflare *also* has free support for onion routing
     > is a MITM attack
     How? The admin consented. The admin using *any* service would be MITM under this logic.

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     Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 10:50:28 JST Eliot Lash

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber @daniel @domo Also don't forget they host hate speech and allegedly terrorist organizations, and take a libertarian view of their responsibility here as they view themselves as part of the neutral infrastructure of the internet: https://www.fastcompany.com/90312063/how-cloudflare-straddles-its-role-as-privacy-champion-and-hate-speech-enabler

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 09:16:46 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     @cwebber @daniel @domo Reminds me of how Cloudflare sometimes means federation issues and broken native applications.