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Cloudflare: Why I left lemmy.world to join another instance (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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Sad to see. We should all know cloudlfare decrypts our data before it reaches the service it protects. A perfect surveillance man-in-the-middle.

I was happy to find a home in the fediverse that uses Anubis instead.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

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[–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

Yeah, I accept your apology. Anubis self-hosted and open source. I suppose you COULD use it between Cloudflare and your service, but why WOULD you?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection...
    With 500 Tbps of network capacity, Cloudflare has mitigated some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, without slowing down performance for customers.

    Website DDoS protection is Free in all application services plans...

    Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/ddos/

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's not OPs point at all, whether or not Cloudflare is good or best at DDoS protection.

    This is like arguing that everyone should only shop on Amazon because they're cheapest and fastest.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    OP asked "why WOULD someone" use it, not why should. I think their question was answered appropriately.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It was only answered appropriately if you ignore the context of the conversation which was a person comparing the two services by showing that they were both reverse proxies while discussing the privacy implications of Cloudflare's reverse proxy being proprietary and privately hosted.

    The person they were replying to was suggesting that there is no difference between Cloudflare and Anubis because they're both reverse proxies. The fact that Cloudflare owns a bunch of infrastructure to mitigate DDoSs is irrelevant.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Oh, you definitely got why I'm against Cloudflare..

    Cloudflare has bot-mitigation built in, sure. So why would someone Anubis between their app and Cloudflare as it fulfills it's reverese proxy role, idk. It seemed like that person was trying to explain to me where Anubis was supposed to fit in sequence here. It's meant for the reverse proxy scenarios specificed in the example (nginx, Caddy, and others)

    You are also correct. The "free" DDoS mitigation is an irrelevant argument against the privacy implications of using Cloudflare. Cloudflare isn't the only DDoS mitigation option.

    *BuT iT's FrEe! *

    Is it, really?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I accept your apology

    Please log out of the internet and don't come back until you touch some grass and/or get laid

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Why? They made an entirely irrelevant comment.

    That they're proxies is not the issue, it's that with one you have to trust some company with all your traffic, while with the other you can use your own infrastructure.

    We're in the privacy community here, suggesting cloudflare is just rediculous.

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