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Note that the blog post does not say "anonymity" or any similar word. We aren't trying to hide you completely from everyone (use Tor for that). We are securing

Note that the blog post does not say "anonymity" or any similar word. We aren't trying to hide you completely from everyone (use Tor for that). We are securing and accelerating the connection between your device and Cloudflare. This is meant to deal with the reliability, performance and security challenges of using mobile Internet around the world. And we have strong privacy guarantees.

tyingq 8y ago
Yes, I got that. But, because CF offerings are very popular, you're going to end up with a lot of people coming from a relatively small number of IP addresses, right? It's worth thinking about...we had this situation before with AOL. That is, a pretty large number of people in diverse geographic areas, all coming from a small number of IP addresses. People do use that "relative" anonymity for lots of things, not all of them good. Also, it may create some issues for things like geolocation, regional content restrictions, credit card fraud detection, SMTP blacklisting, rate limiting, and so forth. Because your offering is free, and CF is well known, I'm guessing it will grow fast. Not suggesting anything change about it, just that it may create something that site owners need to react to.