• pogodem0n@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      “Man in the middle”. They are used by a lot of web services as a proxy, usually to prevent DDOS attacks.

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        22 hours ago

        And when Cloudflare is the proxy for a web site, it’s Cloudflare that provides the HTTPS connection, meaning that you don’t actually have an encrypted channel directly to the site. Cloudflare is the man-in-the-middle eavesdropping on all of your communications with that site. Your bank transactions, your medical records, your personal messages, etc.

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          4 hours ago

          Lol what?

          I thought they just did rate limiting and such, I can’t believe they do SSL as well.