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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The fact that there is no mandatory phone reg. puts Session above Signal. But Session is still very dicey:
BTW @AgreeableLandscape, itsfoss.com is not a good site to publicize; it’s also jailed in CloudFlare walled garden (thus calling into question the extent to which that site genuinely respects freedom).
The only useful effect of Session is that it serves as a PR jab at Signal for requiring phones. And if it helps divide or shrink the Signal community that’s a good thing.
Could you elaborate on your point of them using Cloudflare ?
My understanding is that their websites would be behind Cloudflare for their CDN and anti-DDoS services, maybe WAF as well. Solely looking at CDN services essentially the options come down to Cloudflare or Akamai who have a global domination of the market.
The original commenter hasn’t posted anything in 3 years so you’re not going to get a response most likely.
Cloudflare due to its very nature has unique observation of internet activity. So putting your privacy focus system in front of cloudflare is giving them even more observability into your privacy system. So it seems antithetical.
I didn’t notice the 3 years part till I read in your comment.
Are there any privacy respecting CDN services though?
I won’t comment on what Session is/was doing with Cloudflare services, but say if I am using DoT on my device for encrypted DNS requests, and the traffic is also E2E encrypted, how much can such a provider really see ?
Tools that we have at my job won’t be effective if they receive an encrypted payload.
It’s honestly probably fine. Using cloud Flair for a website is pretty standard. I’m not sure if they use cloudflare for their oxen network but I doubt it.
I’m not familiar with any privacy respecting CDNs
It really bothers me that not needing a phone number for registration is now a feature, and not a basic requirement for anything claiming to be anonymous/private…