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Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To by bastawhiz on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:56PM (#45973920)
That's not really anonymity or privacy in all likelihood, though. Your residential IP is already anonymous. Knowing it tells me nothing other than your general region. The benefit there is that you don't need to have a static IP.

And besides, Cloudflare Tunnel is distinct from (though it integrates with) the cdn product.

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Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To by ack_inc on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:33PM (#45975884)
I would like to know why this comment seems to have been down voted. It's true AFAIK.
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Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:48AM (#45978967)
> Your residential IP is already anonymous

It certainly isn't.

In fact, IPv4 is the de-facto authorization and authentication system of the Internet. It's stupid but it is what it is.

Cloudflare is the "bitcoin mixer" for laundering IPv4's.

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