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I have embedded a link into the title where a person is frustrated with Cloudflare.

I'm interested in knowing the extent of their telemetry and data collection. The user alleges that Cloudflare collects cookies from visitors when one visits a website using their proxy + CDN?

Just to be transparent: I'm not looking to use Cloudflare, I'm going to use my own setup with a VPS, however it is important to know about such technologies, especially since I work in IT.

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[-] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 years ago

I generally avoid Cloudflare where possible personally because at the the end of the day, they're a giant big tech company based in the US, with pretty much unprecedented control over the internet.

With that said, last time I looked into their privacy policy, I thought it was acceptable, but that's been a while ago, so not entirely sure nowadays. Either way I'm not a huge fan.

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