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Based on the (recent) comment on the issue [0], they use the Cloudflare proxy instead of an actual CNAME /and use workers to do yarn-specific changes on the edge / (see below).

[0]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5885#issuecomment-392...

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I work on Yarn. The message you're quoting is from the npm CTO. We don't do yarn-specific changes. The main reason we're using a mirror is because it was massively faster than directly querying the npm registry when Yarn got released. The difference decreased during the past year I think, but Cloudflare was still a bit ahead in most scenarios.

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