> It sounds like you advocate for proxy servers to inspect traffic at the application layer. Is that right? In most cases you wouldn't need one. a URL shortene

> It sounds like you advocate for proxy servers to inspect traffic at the application layer. Is that right? In most cases you wouldn't need one. a URL shortener service can see what people are linking to. A webhosting company can see everything on their own servers. In the specific case of cloudflare and this particular product they may or may not need to. I notice that they do reserve the right to monitor and inspect any traffic on the Cloudflare network.