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![CrimeFlarE logo](../image/crimeflare-logo.png)
Are you already aware of the problems?
Are you already aware of the problems of Cloudflare?
You might want to check:
- [Alternatives](#alternatives)
- [Solutions](#solutions)
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## Who is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is the world's largest man-in-the-middle proxy. This means that it
sits between you and the server which sent you the pages and images.
Cloudflare is the world's largest man-in-the-middle proxy. Technically it is called "reverse proxy".
This means that it sits between you and the server which sent you webpages and images.
Cloudflare is a content delivery network, which means that it has different
servers in different locations, so that websites are supposed to be better
reachable. This has a bad side.
reachable. This has some bad sides.
![](https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/media/branch/master/image/matthew_prince.jpg)
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### Privacy problems
#### Single point of failure
Cloudflare goes down from time to time. All the content which uses Cloudflare
goes down as well when that happens.
Cloudflare goes down from time to time.
All the content which uses Cloudflare goes down as well when that happens.
Read more about the
[single point of failure](../subfiles/single-point-of-failure-problem.md).
Read more about the [single point of failure](../subfiles/single-point-of-failure-problem.md).
![](https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/media/branch/master/image/cloudflareoutage-2020.jpg)
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website or content. Tor is not only for criminals. It is important for many
people and everyone has the right on privacy.
Tor is important, read more about
[why Tor matters](../subfiles/why-tor-matters.md).
Tor is important, read more about [why Tor matters](../subfiles/why-tor-matters.md).
Cloudflare often uses Google reCATPCHAs to check if you are human. These
CAPTCHAs which check if you are human, track you and many claim that they
even try to find out which human you are.
Read more about the
[reCAPTCHA problem](../subfiles/recaptcha-problem.md).
Read more about the [reCAPTCHA problem](../subfiles/recaptcha-problem.md).
#### Project Honey Pot
Project Honey Pot is a project which collects a lot of personal data
"Project Honey Pot" is a project which collects a lot of personal data
and much of that data is from innocent people who deserve privacy.
Cloudflare was created by people who worked on that project.
Cloudflare was created by people who worked on that project. US DHS showed interest to this project.
![](https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/media/branch/master/image/honeypot.gif)
### Not convenient
Cloudflare is not convenient for many visitors of your site. You will
lose visitors when you choose Cloudflare. Many people who helped writing
this file even block Cloudflare.
Cloudflare is not convenient for many visitors of your site.
You will lose visitors when you choose Cloudflare.
Many people who helped writing this file even blocked by Cloudflare.
Did you know that you can lose visitors because your site doesn't load
in a few seconds?
Did you know that you can lose visitors because your site doesn't load in a few seconds?
Cloudflare often makes visitors wait for a few seconds. Many visitors will
leave your site when they see this.
Cloudflare often makes visitors wait for more than few seconds.
Many visitors will just leave your site when they see this.
![](https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/media/branch/master/image/onemorestep.jpg)
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### Other problems
There are other problems as well, but we want to keep this file simple.
Those problems are listed in
[another file](../subfiles/more-cloudflare-problems.md).
Those problems are listed in [another file](../subfiles/more-cloudflare-problems.md).
## Cloudflare Alternatives
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Still not convinced? That's fine.
Just know that many people won't be able to use your content or website.
Cloudflare works against you.