And when Cloudflare is the proxy for a web site, it’s Cloudflare that provides the HTTPS connection, meaning that you don’t actually have an encrypted channel directly to the site. Cloudflare is the man-in-the-middle eavesdropping on all of your communications with that site. Your bank transactions, your medical records, your personal messages, etc.

Why create e-waste and spend money you don’t have to when your existing retro hardware not only works fine but gives customers something to talk about?

I wish more people thought this way.

“Meta does not use your phone’s microphone for ads and we’ve been public about this for years,” the statement read.

Meanwhile: