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Does Cloudflare provide anonymity? (palaver.p3x.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hendrik@palaver.p3x.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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The Wikipedia article says Cloudflare has been used to host hate speech, websites with illegal content and forums connected to all sorts of illegal activities. And I see them being used by a lot of decent webservices but shady ones as well.

So my question, can Cloudflare be used for something alike "bulletproof hosting"? Does anyone know if they collaborate with law enforcement or care once someone sends a mail to the abuse contact? Or if there's a way to find information about a Cloudflare protected server for the public?

Hypothetical question, I'm just curious and I thought maybe someone here has first-hand experience with getting their account terminated or reporting content or doing piracy via them or whatever...

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your insight. Reading these stories always makes me feel data should stay on own premises with extra security measures. And yes, on my VPS, imaging the storage is one click and I believe it's done online without any interruption of service. Not that I do a lot of illegal stuff on the internet. But with the current situation in the US and the general overboarding surveillance, I think i'd like to keep their government and agencies out of my emails and personal stuff... (And maybe even what I do publicly and within legal limits.)

Though I didn't ask about privacy here, but anonymity. And I guess selfhosting stuff at home isn't an option either. Everyone can tell my ISP and location to like 30km with that. And link the IP to other activities.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Email? Lol good luck keeping that secure.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, email is bad and we don't have any worthy successor. I can only deal with the most problematic aspects. Keep my inbox stored somewhere where people can't just easily go through all my stored mails and I guess it's transport encrypted more often than it's not... But yeah, it's only a little bit and "secure" shouldn't be in one sentence with email, I guess 😟