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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (12 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 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?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Appreciate the humility, thx.

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