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I'm using CloudFlare to hide my home IP and to reduce traffic from clankers. However, I'm using the free tier, so how am I the product? What am I sacrificing? Is there another way to do the above without selling my digital soul?

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[–] K3can@lemmy.radio 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Are you using their proxy or just DNS ?

If you have the little orange cloud (proxy) on your DNS entry, go to your public facing webpage and examine the cert. Chances are it's not what you think it is.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

it is exactly what I think it is. you can use your own certs

[–] K3can@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Typically on their free accounts they use your cert for communication between them and you, and use cert they issue for communication between them and everyone else.

User -> CF cert -> CF -> your cert -> your server.

That's why I suggested examining the cert on your external facing page.

Regardless, one way or the other, they need to be able to decrypt your data in order to apply their services (WAF, etc).

Unless, again, you're just using DNS (grey cloud).