is there a reason people dont like cloudflareI hate Cloudflare especially because it's slowly becoming a monopoly (if it didn't become already). Webmasters are giving too much power to a single corporation to rule over who can access online content and who can't. Old browsers and privacy-oriented browsers (e.g. Librewolf) are known to be more likely to be refused by Cloudflare, and this is a form of prejudice.Also, and bringing Anubis to the loop too, there's the lack of user consent. As a guest/user, I'm unable to consent with the heavy computations (and potential damage to my decade-old laptop from overheating) before these happen.What I mean about "lack of consent" can be better illustrated by the "This site uses cookies" message: it often offers buttons so the user/guest can to either "accept" or "reject". Have you wondered why every website must give these options nowadays? Because it's a literal law. Neither Cloudflare nor Anubis have a "we'll need to validate your browser, do you consent? Proceed with verification / Leave the website". Something tells me Cloudflare, and Anubis as well, are literally pieces of code in European Union, given the lack of user consent, although this wasn't tested in courts yet. I'm not European (I'm Brazilian), but it would be quite entertaining to see this tested on an European court.Finally, these things can cause literal harm to a device. Yes, because when any kind of computation happens, the CPU gets a little warm, and when said computations involve cryptomining-like behavior, CPU temps can raise a lot. And for devices such as mine, an i5-7200U laptop whose fan isn't good (and I can't afford a new one), the CPU can easily get to 90C, to the point of damage, if the computations take long enough. Given a PoW relies on randomness, there's a literal chance that a challenge would kill my laptop if it took several seconds during a Brazilian summer (>42C almost wet-bulb). And I doubt the webmaster would be liable for the material damage their website caused to my personal device, so I've been speedrunning my way to close websites as soon as I see "Just a moment" or "Making sure you're not a bot" as their title, I even made myself an userscript for doing so. !selfhosted@lemmy.world

Cloudflare is a Big Tech company (first red flag) based in USA (second red flag) and Big Tech are known for giving not popular things like privacy concerns.

When it comes to Cloudflare, they decrypt your HTTPS traffic in order to process the data (a very BIG red flag). And you can't do shit about other than refuse to use Cloudflare on your website.

But how often will that happen with all the ignorant and careless people all around the world? Very rare! So I tend to just avoid the shit instead.

• https://medium.com/@PlanB./the-shocking-truth-about-cloudflares-role-in-your-privacy-no-one-s-talking-about-this-5efaca6bace0 (ye-ye, I know Medium is shit, but they can have good content).
• https://terms.law/Privacy-Watchdog/domain-hosting/cloudflare/
• https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cloudflare-protection-on-website/14531

People don't like Cloudflare, I assume, because it's concentrating your data into one channel. They have control much like a lot of major data centers. So it's 6 of this, half dozen of the other, and those idiosyncrasies are justified differently by different selfhosters. I would hazard a guess that all major banking institutions use Cloudflare. It's just that ubiquitous. I use Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust and I absolutely love it. Cloudflare is unavoidable on the internet.

ETA: To answer your question directly, yes lemmy.world does employ Cloudflare.