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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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