Does cloudflare respect users? They don't even respect the intent of "do not track" enable it and you can do cloudflare captchas in an infinite loop which doesn't seem so respectful in my understanding of that word.
Better to evaluate the merits of each product than to make a blanket judgment about the company and force your opinions of each product to confirm.
I think that the point is that Cloudflare's business model lies largely on its ability to monitor individual end users. So when Cloudflare announces they are providing a service whose primary selling point is that it affects their ability to monitor users then this sounds like a blatant contradiction.
I also think that begging people to blindly trust corporations, specially when it's without any rationale or reason, is to say the least very silly.
Sorry. Can you clarify what the business model is?
Disclaimer: work at cloudflare and this is the first time I’ve heard our business is monitoring users.
Or from the opposite direction, in practice every single time I add more privacy tools to my collection, CF puts more "are you sure you're human?" pages in my way. Motivations they tell themselves they have ultimately matter very little in light of what they're actually doing to the web.
You didn't read that at all. You read a claim that cloudflare depends on its ability to monitor individual end users.
That's not actually a nitpick. Given you work at cloudflare can you point me to the part where clouflare state in some legal doc of consequence they do not monitor individual end users? I'd appreciate that.
If they are not going to let me past, I wish they would at least come out and say it. Are they trying to waste bot time like someone stringing along a scammer? Not everyone on a VPN is a bot or otherwise malicious user.
So yes. I mean cloudflare. But don't pick a fight on the internet about it, set do not track in your browser and watch the web break for yourself.
Cloudflare are pretty terrible and need to be called for it.