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I hear that both CloudFlare is privacy respectful and that it spies on site visitors (with their CDN). What's your thoughts on this matter?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can use archiving services since a lot of time ago to avoid redirecting people to Cloudflared stuff.

There are some which are fully FLOSS-based like https://conifer.rhizome.org which you even can self-host to avoid the limit they put for accounts there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Isn't Conifer more like The Internet Archive service? I was understanding Cloudflare was really being used to help manage massive volumes of web traffic ie. more the network management side?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I think I didn't explain myself at all.

The idea is that you can share the clones of the website in Conifer or any other web archive to avoid the issues with Cloudflare that people could have.

Must say I get a few complaints from people about that aspect of Cloudflare when I link to articles on websites using it. I can’t control where others put good content though.

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Must say I get a few complaints from people about that aspect of Cloudflare when I link to articles on websites using it. I can’t control where others put good content though.

Actually, you can control at this level.