Depends on the definition of wrong! CloudFlare is a bit of an HN darling thanks to their employees' active contributions and submitting every technical post on

Depends on the definition of wrong! CloudFlare is a bit of an HN darling thanks to their employees' active contributions and submitting every technical post on their blog. Free distributed DNS and potential DDoS protection is also a tempting offer. To privacy-conscious users: CloudFlare is the man-in-the-middle for more and more of the Internet, potentially tracking at Google-like levels. CloudFlare may: ... Add script to your pages to, for example, add services, Apps, or perform additional performance tracking. (Unfortunately this is opt-out rather than opt-in.) https://www.cloudflare.com/terms https://www.cloudflare.com/terms To Tor users: CloudFlare implements a captcha to protect servers from malicious traffic; the implementation has caused tremendous annoyance in the past and the company may have been slow to address this problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977780 (example complaint, 3 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388560 (9 months ago, from cloudflare) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404770 (the tor project response) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122268 (6 months ago, additional discussion of tor vs. captcha) To DDoS victims: CloudFlare protects several DDoS vendors while gaining business protecting DDoS victims, citing free speech. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/spreading-the-ddos-disease-and-selling-the-cure/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/spreading-the-ddos-disea... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242377 To CloudFlare customers: CloudFlare has a "target on its back" and has faltered against DDoS in the past, causing outages for all of its customers. AFAIK: It's been a while. To CloudFlare freeloaders like me: CloudFlare doesn't have much incenctive to protect its free-tier users from DDoS. Related: Akami stopped helping DDoS'd pro-bono client Brian Krebs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561928