Comment by chadsix
8 months ago
It's unclear as it shouldn't be possible to be cheap. That said, in a world of data, Cloudflare being a massive man in the middle (MITM) probably means something [1].
[1] Cloudflare decrypts your traffic, reads it, and then forwards it. They see all encrypted data going to and from your website, in plaintext.
This data collection project has a name: "Project Honey Pot" (and had excellent relations with FBI), look closely the story that led to Cloudflare.
https://www.projecthoneypot.org/cloudflare_beta.html
Wow. This is a travesty if I've ever known one. Hopefully, that can be posted and upvoted on HN.
I actually like Cloudflare very much from a technical perspective, so I wouldn't want to hurt them.
In fact, the company vision and values (as the team grew) may have changed over the time, but originally it seems it was somewhat of a different spirit (and closer to a data collection network).