amunak@alien.topBtoSelf-Hosted Main@selfhosted.forum•How are so many sites OK with using cloudflare when they are basically a MITM?English
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10 months agoBecause it’s “everyone’s MITM” it would make it a perfect spot for state actors to tap into in order to surveil pretty much everything without anyone being able to notice.
Hell, just the server logs (timestamps, IP addresses and exact URLs) would be unbelievably valuable.
I’d be really surprised if someone wasn’t taking advantage of that.
Which is to say if you selfhost because you want more control and privacy, you probably want to avoid services like that.
Well yeah, it’s not easy. Which is why they limit what they do to the aggregated data or to targeted discovery.
But that’s only a small technical hurdle and the speed with which you can analyze the data grows much faster than the volume (especially if you are smart about what data you analyze and how you do it) so it won’t last forever.