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They terminate TLS for you.

They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.

Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.

> There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...]

I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.

Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.