Comment by ____tom____
6 hours ago
I have no idea what 'the orange cloud icon' means, as I'm not a CloudFlare used.
But DNS/Name servers do not see HTML traffic, as the above poster mentioned, so it's not obvious how this change would matter.
Is it that they are serving their HTML via CloudFlare, and cloudflare is making changing in its serving of their html?
Cloudflare sets up a reverse proxy as part of their core offering, so by default they can MITM your proxy. The “orange cloud” by a DNS record means it points to their proxy instead of your server.
What a shame. I wasn’t expecting these dark patterns from Cloudflare at all.
That’s not a dark pattern. That’s one of the core reasons to use Cloudflare.
That's how you get DDOS protection / edge delivery, so it's not a dark pattern. I imagine it's the main reason why people would DNS through them in the first place.
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I would say that Cloudfare having customers who don't know exactly what they are getting (into) is actually a Cloudfare problem they should take responsibility for.