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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's just what the web needed: more tracking!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best part is that unlike Google and other ad platforms where you can block various things and not send tracking data, by nature of how Cloudflare works, there's no avoiding being tracked!

Instead of being embedded in the page, Cloudflare's serving you the page and is acting as the "first-party". If you block Cloudflare, you can't access a huge portion of the web, including many of the largest sites.

They also make it hard to do anything to protect your privacy: even changing your browser settings to try to be less fingerprint-able can get you stuck in a bot-detection/CAPTCHA loop when you try to access pages served by Cloudflare. To Cloudflare, you trying to blend in or be somewhat anonymous is "suspicious" and means they won't serve you the content you're requesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, cloudflare was created by project honeypot people

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