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🚨 Alert! Big Brother is at it again: #Palantir, the mystical oracle of Silicon Valley, is on a mission to map every sneeze and hiccup you've ever had for the government. 🤖🔍 But don't worry, it's not like privacy was ever a thing, right? 😂 #TotallyNotCreepy
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I want this warning to reach anyone considering #cloudflare, to raise awareness of how your information is handled.

This post is intended for users who not aware how CDN providers works.

This post is NOT intended for experts who fully understands what they doing in IT infrastructure (Except for the very last statement about “free cake,” that is for discussion with everybody).

When you use #cloudflare DNS proxy feature (see attached screenshot, this is a feature that can be enabled in 2 clicks from DNS panel), you are not just sharing your data with #cloudflare - **100% of your site traffic is decrypted into plaintext **after it is received by intermediate #Cloudflare servers (later it re-encrypted to be sent to your origin web server); this means technically, in a moment, they have direct access to any sensitive data submitted from user to website and from website to user, such as** emails, passwords, names, credit card numbers, etc.**

From data collection and surveillance point of view, there have been no leaks or evidence that #cloudflare is used for surveillance (yet), but:

1. They have all the technical capabilities for this: decrypted traffic is centralized with a single provider worldwide and is automatically analyzed (currently claimed to be only by the DDoS protection and AI bot protection).

2. No other cloud service offers so many features for free at once; they provide:
- Free 1.1.1.1 secure public DNS resolver (with DoH)
- Free authoritative DNS
- Free CDN.
- Free AI bot protection.
- Free DDoS protection.
- Zero-margin domain pricing.

3. I'm pointing to Cloudflare specifically because its DNS Proxy feature is both easily accessible and misleading, and because Cloudflare is very popular among non-enterprise users, who most likely will be not aware how their data handled.

Next are my own thoughts:
And this is quite suspicious, because customers are being attracted by a “free cake” that nobody else on the market can offer, and we don’t know who is paying for it.

EDIT: Edited because "George E." pointed that word "transits" sounds ambiguously.

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