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CloudFlare's solution is significantly less secure than Tor; it's more like visiting an HTTPS website using a VPN service. You have to trust that the VPN and the website operator aren't colluding to de-anonymize you, and that they aren't both being monitored by the same third party (who can de-anonymize you using timing information).

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Possibly by design as the NSA leans pretty heavy on CF these days for DPI.

No they don’t.

Well that's an interesting statement from an interesting person.

I thought you were being facetious about what could have been a throwaway comment from a throwaway account, but then I checked their bio; this particular type of interaction is one of the things that I love about HN.

Same here, I've learned to check. I really should have explicitly pointed out who, so it was less blown off. Almost came back and did so. And yes, why HN is great.

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