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In other words, Cloudflare requires you to substantially increase your browser’s attack surface in order to visit websites.


You're not quite going far enough. Cloudflare requires that you allow it to attack your browser, as a sort of virtual hazing ritual, before you're allowed into the club. That this hazing makes your browser vulnerable to attacks by others too is a side effect that bothers them not at all.


Ah yes, the TSA of the internet.


It is very similar to kernel modules for game anti-cheats. Soon, websites will work on unmodified Windows and Mac computers only, with a signed cloudflare kernel driver installed. :/ They are completrly destroying the web.




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