I don't want to be a contrairian, but your cellphone carrier does this non stop. Cloudflare is not a good company, but this is the least of your problems.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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You have entirely misunderstood this exploit.
How so? Asking out of curiosity.
I'm not trying to wear a tinfoil hat, but Snowden clearly revealed that the government is easily able to purchase cellphone location data based on GPS and tower data more easily than they can go through the FISA courts.
Your cellphone provider very likely already sells this data.
I know mine does, because I attended a webinar of a buying company where they explicitly mentioned this.
Ah, thought you meant though metadata. Like a end user snooping through some obscure meta data method (even after cleaning) let's you triangulate something.
oh no, now they nkow I'm in the US North East, assuming I'm not using a VPN...
Another reason why Cloudflare sucks.
Another reason to not use Cloudflare. Not that long ago they also "lost the log records" (this incident happened on November 14, 2024). I strongly believe the internet can become better without Cloudflare, especially now basically the whole world is depending on it.
It is impossible to use most of corpo internet if you block cloudflare. Shit is wild.
Not sure who is down voting you lol
I wish people would respond with a rebuttal so we can move convo forward.
I also have no idea why is down voting me lol. But you are 100% right. Could you imagine in the year 2000 that everything needs to behind Cloudflare in 2025 in order to have a functional internet? This shit is indeed wild.
Sorry to see so many people still down vote me. What is wrong with you? The internet has become a joke. Moving all to cloudflare will only make the problem worse.
You don't need a VPN mate...
It ain't a solution but surely would help here