There's nothing in this blog about searches. It's just raw traffic data across all the sites/services that use us. So this is showing overall change in traffic while the eclipse was happening and isn't related to what people were actually doing on the Internet.

What do you mean by searches? The article talks about internet traffic in general, which they can monitor.

Cloudflare MITM lots of connections plus they run a DNS server so they know exactly what you're up to.

Running a DNS server lets them know what site you're going to, just like everyone who sees the secured request also knows, right? Otherwise there'd be no way for the request to end up at the right location. I suppose they might have an advantage with an encrypted DNS, but I don't think it's much of a MITM if you're sending your request to them to find out where to go.

Cloudflare terminates SSL for all customers behind their DDOS protection, by necessity.

GP is technically correct, but is tilting at windmills at best, making veiled accusations at worst.

Oh, interesting. I didn't realize that.

Was it veiled? Sorry. Cloudflare is an arm of the US government helping to eavesdrop on all internet traffic.

All US companies follow US law. It sounds goofy, I know, but it's a cultural thing.

When you operate at Cloudflare's scale, you receive a lot of inquiries from law enforcement in all countries. See also Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Linode, Hurricane Electric, et cetera ad inifinitum.

If your accusation is more specific than that, you'll want to rethink the word "arm" which is clearly incorrect and makes you sound like a loon.

New account "just asking questions".

Thanks Boss, totally wasn’t the intention. But I mistakenly assumed traffic was all related to “search”.

Now I am not a fool anymore by “just asking question”.