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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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Because it’s not always about the encryption. I use Cloudflare tunnels because they are a good way of exposing sites to the internet without exposing my IP or opening ports, which means I don’t have to worry as much about DDoS or other attacks and therefore I don’t need to spend as much effort defending against them.
Even Cloudflare decides to inspect my traffic (and seriously why would they care about a tiny hobbyist website) it’s not like it gives them full access to everything, there are other controls you can use depending what your site is for.
Honestly what I don’t understand is why some on this sub have such strong objections to Cloudflare. Like I get they are a terrible company in a lot of ways, but name a tech company that isn’t?
You don't need to use CF tunnels to get DDoS protection and to hide your IP. If you are using CF tunnels without being undee a CG-NAT then you are getting MITM'd for nothing.
You have a very narrow view of why certain technologies should or should not be used. I'm not behind CG-NAT but there is still plenty of value to Cloudflare tunnels for me. Even behind my IP I have a fairly complex network environment but CF tunnels make it easy for me to stand up a connection from a cluster, make it resilient and highly available, and automatically handle failure modes to keep the service up to the world. They also give me a transferable configuration that allows me to quickly move my apps to the cloud or to other hosting if I need to.
So no, I'm not "mindlessly" using them, and I'm not using them just for security or just for DDoS protection. I've actually put quite a lot of thought into my architecture and why I used certain technologies, thank you very much.