@BlackWinnerYoshi What kind of privacy do you think you're protecting? The vast majority of the fediverse consists of public posts on sites that can be accessed with any tool that speaks web protocols. There's are a plethora of ways to harvest and mine the data, it's not private in any way, shape, or form. DMs are not E2EE, so they're about as private as email (except when people use PGP tools, Autocrypt etc). Once we solve these problems, Cloudflare is just another dumb relay.
@strypey @abloo @BlackWinnerYoshi the free and open (non-cloudflare) fediverse allows #Tor connections & thus the privacy of not revealing IP addresses (read: PII) while also preventing ISPs from tracking where their customers visit. #CloudFlare DoSes Tor users thus attacking #privacy. And if you so much as execute the #CAPTCHA j/s, you feed #hCAPTCHA, who then finances CloudFlare.
@BlackWinnerYoshi @abloo @strypey If you opt to give up your privacy to feed a CF'd #fediverse node, you also serve as an enabler of the privacy abuse of others. So doing a #fediblock on #cloudflare is of course necessary for privacy. Blocking CloudFlare is also the pro- #netneutrality move.
