I read a comment on here some time ago where the person said they were using cloudflared to expose some of their self-hosted stuff to the Internet so they can access it remotely.

I am currently using it to expose my RSS feed reader, and it works out fine. I also like the simplicity of Cloudflare’s other offerings.

Any thoughts on why cloudflared is not a good idea? What alternatives would you suggest? How easy/difficult are they to setup?

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is disingenuous.

    The full clause says…

    You and your End Users (as such term is defined in the Privacy Policy) will retain all right, title and interest in and to any data, content, code, video, images or other materials of any type that you or your End Users transmit to or through the Services (collectively, “Customer Content”) in the form provided to Cloudflare. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free right to collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Customer Content, in each case to the extent necessary to provide the Services.

    So to paraphrase, you retain your interest, but assign sufficient rights to cloudflare for them to provide the service you’re using. For example, they can’t give you a CDN if you don’t give them the right to transmit your data.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Surely you have to acknowledge that it’s disingenuous to copy the last sentence of the clause and omit the first sentence that says the exact opposite of the point you’re trying to make.

        You’re reading “bad faith” into the vagaries of a terms & conditions document. T&Cs will never say “we will never monetise this data”, that’s just not how T&Cs work, and it’s naive to conclude that the absence of such a statement means that cloudflare intends to monetise the data.

        If you look at cloudlfares strategy here, they want to be the sweetheart of everyone who knows what a VPN is in order that they will be selected by those people for corporate projects. Monetising the data that flows through their network is antithetical to that objective.

        Additionally I would venture that the data doesn’t really have any value, it would be impossible to use it to build data about an individuals browsing or buying habits.

          • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Cloudflare is a business and if they see more value in selling you out, and legally you agreed they may, then they will.

            Exactly. My whole point is that there’s no value in selling you out. Their whole strategy is to garner favor with privacy conscious individuals like your good self.

            Acting “antiethical”

            You realise antiethical is not a word right?

            I would pay you $5 monthly for all the data going through your tunnel

            I don’t actually use any cloudflare products. However, I believe this is more or less the crux of our delightful tête-à-tête: how do you propose to derive value from my data?

          • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            10 months ago

            The first part of the sentence you quoted says “subject to the terms of this agreement”. The most salient part of the agreement is the sentence you omitted.

            Your claim was:

            You’ll have to be fine with Cloudflare having any and all rights to the data transmitted through the tunnel, while you in return have none.

            … and you omitted the sentence which describes the rights you have as the user, contradicting your assertion that users have none. If you don’t think that’s disingenuous then I don’t know what to tell you mate.