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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're a giant middleman getting everything you put into html forms unencrypted.

That includes all your usernames, passwords, and everything you submit via text boxes. Do not trust any site that uses cloudflare.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is such a Lemmy take, good god.

"Cloudflare has been around for over a decade and doesn't do anything nefarious with my data and have never shown any intention of doing so... but, consider this for a moment... what if they DID?"

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cloudflare has been around for over a decade and doesn't do anything nefarious with my data and have never shown any intention of doing so

Citation needed.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oops, I've got a citation for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers

I know the response will be what you already said in a previous comment about companies saying "trust us bro" so I'll take the L on this one.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Appreciate the humility, thx.

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is such a Lemmy take

What makes it funnier is that he's one of the main Lemmy devs lol

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trusting US corporations by default rule

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NGL I'm struggling to follow that image, do you have a higher res version or an explanation if you don't mind?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh hey, thanks for Lemmy!

Yeah, I'm a bit horrified to learn that Cloudflare is the crytographic endpoint for clients. I'm wondering how much stuff I've let them see while unaware now.

Y'know, because obviously nobody would voluntarily sign up for this kind of security bad practice. /s

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No probs! Yeah it's wild that a lot of people not only using cloudflare sites, but also running them, don't seem to mind that cloudflare is hoovering up everything.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I'll do a full research next time I enter a web page to see who hosts it. If it's by Amazon or Microsoft I'll give green light.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

None of the above is easily possible, a lot of us do it.