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+1 @cnst, what privacy concerns are you all afraid of with ECS ? archive.is will get informed that someone around IP range A.B.x.x tries to reach its website, j

by rvnx 7y ago

+1 @cnst, what privacy concerns are you all afraid of with ECS ? archive.is will get informed that someone around IP range A.B.x.x tries to reach its website, just a few seconds later to see a connection from A.B.C.D. The main reason that Cloudflare wouldn't share this info is to prevent competitors like Akamai to operate a CDN as good as them. It looks more like sabotaging competition than increasing privacy.

FDSGSG 7y ago
In practice this is one of the most common techniques used to deanonymize proxy users.
- cnst 7y ago
  How? If your client is leaking DNS outside of the confines of the proxy you're using, you've got bigger problems than ECS.
  - FDSGSG 7y ago
    I don't disagree about DNS leaks being a separate problem, that doesn't change anything about what I said though.
cnst 7y ago
> The main reason that Cloudflare wouldn't share this info is to prevent competitors like Akamai to operate a CDN as good as them. It looks more like sabotaging competition than increasing privacy. Exactly. Their own answers in the threads over here at HN are basically admitting as much — they claim to be working on solutions alternative to ECS, because Google and some others have more PoPs than Cloudflare does. They're obviously using this as a competitive advantage to slow down competing CDNs. And noone's talking about!