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It's a win for both sides... you get free protection/proxy service, and they get to MITM all your traffic.


That's like saying your cloud providers are stealing and looking at all your code. Technically you might be right but it is still somewhat disingenuous.

Not to mention all the alternatives are doing MITM anyway. So why single out Cloudflare?


> it is still somewhat disingenuous.

Depends on your perspective IMO... if I either think there is reason to believe they are spying on people for nefarious purposes, or if I do not want them to allow the government to spy on me without a warrant, I'd prefer they not have that ability to begin with, regardless of whether it's code sitting on the device or the web traffic that transits through them.

> So why single out Cloudflare?

Because I believe they have a much larger influence and percentage of traffic than all the alternatives combined, but you're right, they all have the same weakness and I would like a solution to it.




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