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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by mike_d on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:18AM (#28032835)
CloudFlare positions itself as an all or nothing frontend to your site, not just a CDN you offload assets to. Even sites that fully front themselves with a CDN you can still poke around and find the origin servers.

For example you can drop requests to fbcdn.net (which last time I bothered to check was a good mix of Akamai) and still make a connection to Facebook itself and at least logged in and view HTML.

Obviously ISPs, internet exchanges, datacenters, and clouds operate very differently. But I imagine you know the difference.

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Re:Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company... by manigandham on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:12AM (#28033132)
What are you trying to say? You can use Cloudflare in a variety of ways, just like any other CDN.

My point is that there are lots of vendors with lots of control involved in pretty much every business transaction. There's nothing special about Cloudflare in this regard, in the same way you trust your bank or ISP or power utility or office custodial staff. Risk management is a mature process; no wild conspiracies required.

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