Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.
Cloudflare can read and even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.
Cloudflare’s dominance is a huge problem exactly for this reason. Having a single point of failure is a huge risk, and it’s surprising that governments don’t view this as being a matter of national security.
As a side note, and not to “well ackshully”, but Cloudflare isn’t a backbone provider. But your point still stands lol.
maybe it’s a bad idea to put the entirety of the backbone of the internet on one or two private companies.
Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.
Cloudflare can read and even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.
Cloudflare’s dominance is a huge problem exactly for this reason. Having a single point of failure is a huge risk, and it’s surprising that governments don’t view this as being a matter of national security.
As a side note, and not to “well ackshully”, but Cloudflare isn’t a backbone provider. But your point still stands lol.
Cloudflare is providing national security services to western governments. Look at where it is located and the laws it must abide by.
they dont because they have no clue about anything technological.
It’s blows my mind that it’s so obviously bad to do and yet here we are