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feature request: give users a cancel Cloudflare config option (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Apart from Cloudflare being an access restricted walled garden that harms interoperability, I really do not want my content on CF & I do not want CF content reaching me. This bug is one of many issues likely caused by Cloudflare:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4806490

I would like to flip a switch that has the effect of making my whole UX Cloudflare-free. Cloudflare is antithetical to decentralization and it has clearly broken the #Lemmy network.

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[–] diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Better or worse depends on who you ask.

I boycott Cloudflare and I avoid it. Some CF hosts are configured to whitelist Tor so we don’t encounter a block screen or captcha. For me that is actually worse because I could inadvertently interact with a CF website without knowing about the CF MitM. I want to be blocked by Cloudflare because it helps me avoid those sites.

The CF onion (IIUC) cuts out the exit node which is good. But CF is still a MitM so for me that’s useless.

Some users might not care that CF has a view on all their packets - they just don’t want to be blocked. So for them the onion is a bonus.