Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases
pogodem0n@lemmy.world 8 hours ago“Man in the middle”. They are used by a lot of web services as a proxy, usually to prevent DDOS attacks.
Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases
pogodem0n@lemmy.world 8 hours ago“Man in the middle”. They are used by a lot of web services as a proxy, usually to prevent DDOS attacks.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 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.