Blocking Cloudflare sites with Pi-hole?
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The issue I am facing: While most people want Cloudflare, I want to avoid them and block sites that use them. Is this possible? Is there a blacklist of sites that use it? I have so much trouble with them I don't appreciate being randomly blocked and my privacy invaded by them. I realize this is not a popular opinion. But that is why I use PiHole, because my views are not popular. Details about my system: A discrete x86 computer running debian, Unbound, and PiHole. What I have changed si...

I have embedded a link into the title where a person is frustrated with Cloudflare.

I’m interested in knowing the extent of their telemetry and data collection. The user alleges that Cloudflare collects cookies from visitors when one visits a website using their proxy + CDN?

Just to be transparent: I’m not looking to use Cloudflare, I’m going to use my own setup with a VPS, however it is important to know about such technologies, especially since I work in IT.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

    Seems the attitude against it is “I just don’t like it”.

    If someone keeps getting the captcha interstitial, it’s probably because they’ve configured their browser to turn off things like JavaScript and cookies. This makes them different from a regular user, and can either break a site due to missing requirements, or makes them look like a bot, which Cloudflare will block.

  • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Cloudflare does post their IP ranges so I would probably start with looking at traffic involved with those IPs to see what kind of information was going there, you could also block those ranges and see what breaks.