A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor

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Post by captn3m0 » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor
github.com

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Post by ushakov » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:49 PM UTC

what are the use-cases for cloudflare in front of GitHub pages?

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Post by BillinghamJ » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:50 PM UTC

ushakov wrote: post #2

what are the use-cases for cloudflare in front of GitHub pages?

This is answered quite clearly in the linked page.

GitHub Pages originally didn't support SSL on custom domains, so people would often put Cloudflare in front of it.

Now GHP does support SSL on custom domains, so Cloudflare is no longer needed, but obviously a lot of sites still exist with the original setup.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

ushakov wrote: post #2

what are the use-cases for cloudflare in front of GitHub pages?

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Post by lbotos » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

Feedback: I might suggest changing "Now Resolved/ Not Resolved" to Resolved/Broken. This could help with readability as right now there is 1 char difference and it took me a few times to parse.

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Post by tomklein » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

What if the site owners change their SSL settings to Full SSL though?

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Post by bratao » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

Please Cloudflare, I'm a paying customer and have some IPv6 only users that are very frustrated every time they see a Cloudflare challenge page. Your provider, HCaptcha still do not support IPv6. I have to use workarounds like an alternative domain without CF and this is very frustrating.

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Post by blastonico » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:56 PM UTC

Poor Snoopy, after a terrible experience at the supermarket, now this! :-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2n7Jiy-xY

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Post by captn3m0 » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

tomklein wrote: post #6

What if the site owners change their SSL settings to Full SSL though?

It fixes the issue, and that has been the recommended fix I've been offering developers all this while.

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Post by ahupp » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

bratao wrote: post #7

Please Cloudflare, I'm a paying customer and have some IPv6 only users that are very frustrated every time they see a Cloudflare challenge page. Your provider, HCaptcha still do not support IPv6. I have to use workarounds like an alternative domain without CF and this is very frustrating.

It's a little hard for me to believe that there are IPv6-only users out there. Who are these people?

edit: I realize there are plenty users behind NAT64 gateways etc, that's the point: how many users out there have no IPv4 connectivity at all?