1. Cloudflare handles approximately 20% of all the traffic on the internet. And it's growing fast. In 2017, it was 10%. [1], [2]2. It's impossible to use Cloudflare proxy without giving up encryption of data. They are a man-in-the-middle that has access to unencrypted information of all the traffic they proxy. (Yes, even with Full-Strict/Keyless SSL)3. Of the remaining 80% of internet traffic,...
It would be good to know how many traffic goes into the proxy, to have an accurate understanding of their plain traffic capabilities.
[1] 20% traffic in 2021 claim https://twitter.com/AxelrodG/status/1447938954758705155
[1] 10% traffic in 2017 claim https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-in...
[3] 43% of traffic https://www.sandvine.com/blog/netflix-vs.-google-vs.-amazon-...
[4] cdnjs vulnerability https://blog.ryotak.me/post/cdnjs-remote-code-execution-en/
[4] TAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
[5] Cloudflare CEO interview to BBC in 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016
1. Cloudflare handles ~20% of all the traffic on the internet. And growing fast, on 2017 it was 10%.2. It's impossible to use Cloudflare proxy without giving up encryption of data. They are a man-in-the-middle that have access to unencrypted information of all the traffic they proxy. (Yes, even with Full-Strict/Keyless SSL)3. Of the remaining 80% of internet traffic, 43% comes from Netflix,...