The Hacker‘s ChoiceSep 26, 2023
CF is amassing a lot of power. With 30% of all Internet Traffic going through CF and them decrypting all HTTPS traffic at the Edge...and able to change any or all of it transparently. This extract from CF's blog reads like a Government/Thread Actor's dream come true....
Show threadmafe en españaSep 26, 2023
@thc Is there an HTML obfuscating solution against this?
Show threadLisPiSep 26, 2023

@mafe @thc Yeah it's called #encryption.

It also completely defeats the point of a CDN/caching-proxy like Cloudflare.

There are a few issues at play here, but mostly the redundancy limiting ability for DDoS could be handled by #p2p content-addressed mirrors, the problem is that on the #clearnet that has major #privacy issues.

So instead of doing the smart thing and deprecating the clearnet for application-level traffic, people just went "fuck it" and took the shit (but easy/simple) option.

Show threadNot a Spring OnionSep 30, 2023

@lispi314 @mafe @thc

IMHO: Using a CDN just means that someone is bad at building small websites.

Show threadLisPi

@wakame @mafe @thc Counterpoint: Audiovisual content gets heavy.

Even if you selfhost your webcomic on the most barebones of plain HTML sites, if you get the hug of death your site is going down/unreachable.

If it were on content-addressed #P2P network, that needn't be the case.

Sep 30, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb