resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@Mojeek @werwolf Just like #DuckDuckGo, #Brave is good at marketing privacy not delivering privacy. You can always count on ppl to confuse the two.

@altlink @strypey BTW, this is a CF-free version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210614050850/www.currentaffairs.org/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right

@strypey I wonder if Matthew James Seidel, who seems to oppose central & singular corporate access to data and power over it, as well as #surveillanceCapitism, knows that his article is in #Cloudflare's walled garden. Strypey: I suggest following @altlink.

@josias This article claimed in 2019 that Cloudflare had 34.55% of the CDN market (french): https://web.archive.org/web/www.zdnet.fr/actualites/quand-cloudflare-begaie-internet-trebuche-39887031.htm If that's true, then it probably has less than 34% of the whole web regardless of CDNs, even with 2 years of growth.

@josias Sorry folks, I was wrong about the 34% figure. That's just the ratio of *gaming* sites that use #Cloudflare. The global count is underway and hopefully will be released soon.

@cpm @sebsauvage J'ai peur que ça m'arrive, et c'était une erreur. Ma source m'a ensuite corrigé pour dire que le 34% est le nombre de sites de jeux qui utilisent Cloudflare. Ma source travaille autour de l'horloge pour compter le total mondial. Espérons que ces chiffres seront bientôt déterminés. Désolé pour l'info.

@lightweight well i find it easy to boycott them, but some of us give up democracy (our voting rights & petition rights) in order to boycott Cloudflare, which means we can't elect officials that can take on the fight. No GAFAM boycott has caused me to lose public rights or access goverment services -- only Cloudflare imposes on the public sector

@lightweight So Cloudflare's detriment has already taken a toll by keeping the Tor community small. The millennials don't even have the experience of Tor "just working" because CF's damage is present for them from day one, while CF remains invisible. It's the most insideous of tech corps because their attack is stealthy enough that CF doesn't get the blame.

@lightweight Cloudflare is much more dangerous because the public has no grasp on it. This is exacerbated by the fact that so few use Tor. Cloudflare could destroy Tor simply by spreading itself, and the general public will lose a great privacy tool before they even know it exists. There are already people who try Tor, and remove it right away saying "there are too many CAPTCHAs"

@lightweight But when I tell a business or gov office "I cannot access your website because it's on Cloudflare", 100% of the time they are completely stumped, like I'm from another planet. There is zero awareness of that threat.

@lightweight When I tell my banker or insurance agent "no, i will not email you because I can see that your email address is hosted by #Microsoft (or Google)", they are usually immediately understanding. Even if they don't hold that position themselves, most of the public has been made aware of the controversy & I often need not explain further.

@lightweight I use #MACFANG to do that.. or even #MACFANGY if I need to include Verizon-Yahoo in some cases.

@lightweight I think they are more commonly referred to as the "big 5" or #GAFAM, but I find it short-sighted because Cloudflare has a serious awareness problem. It has taken control of roughly 1/3rd of websites worldwide, and probably 99% of the world's population has no idea & have never heard the name. It's important to put CF in the mud with the others to increase awareness.

@lightweight there are a dozen or so 3rd party sites that people can register through like Headstart, but many of those are also Cloudflared.. and even the ones that aren't, it's likely the same issue.. to get into the state's db it would have to go through the state's own Cloudflare site.

@lightweight there are US states where the state secretary collects voter reg. applications using a #Cloudflare site: AZ,GA,HI,ID,NY,OH,RI,WA (so 16% actually). If Cloudflare blocks them, they can still register on paper but the person doing the data entry likely does so on the very same website that's Cloudflared, so even your paper registration details would be shared with Cloudflare.

@lightweight It's disturbing that the #FrightfulFive excludes #Cloudflare. It's easy to give up Apple & Google compared to CF. A boycott on CF would mean giving up the right to vote for Americans in 10% of the country. How many other tech giants stand in the way of something as basic and essential as voting in elections?