> CF doesn't sell it or use it for marketing
Any source for this? Do you work there? I checked their docs and they say they don't "mine user data", so I wouldn't trust anything they say, at least outside legal documents.
Any source for this? Do you work there? I checked their docs and they say they don't "mine user data", so I wouldn't trust anything they say, at least outside legal documents.
> We will never sell your data or use it to target ads.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns...
> Cloudflare will not sell or share Public Resolver users’ personal data with third parties or use personal data from the Public Resolver to target any user with advertisements.
There's a lot of transparency on that page in particular, down to the lists of the fields in the logs.
* Parties can engage in price discrimination against you. (You don't shop around? you've got some extra spending money? double prices! Looking up risky activities? high insurance rates!)
* Parties can engage in lawfare and blackmail
* Parties can influence elections (without advertising, e.g. by gerrymandering or by targeting your participation in elections just based on knowing how you'll vote)
* Parties can target people of your race or beliefs for genocide (oh, sorry, I meant to say "lawful orders of governments")
Plus the definition of advertising itself is up to interpretation: is sending someone to your door advertising?
I wouldn't trust them even if it were in legal docs. Companies have a long history of being perfectly fine with breaking the law when doing so is profitable, especially when they're likely to get little more than a slap on the wrist when caught, and the odds of being caught in the first place are slim.