I’m using CloudFlare to hide my home IP and to reduce traffic from clankers. However, I’m using the free tier, so how am I the product? What am I sacrificing? Is there another way to do the above without selling my digital soul?
I’m using CloudFlare to hide my home IP and to reduce traffic from clankers. However, I’m using the free tier, so how am I the product? What am I sacrificing? Is there another way to do the above without selling my digital soul?
You’re using a service that is proxying your data. They can read all of it.
If you don’t care, then good for you. You’re still the product as being a user because whatever you happen to be serving may eventually become interesting to them.
If not, no harm done. It costs pennies to host a 24/7 load balanced reverse proxy. You just can’t do it yourself.