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@ -16,20 +16,20 @@ documenting websites that subject people to the harms of Cloudflare by
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maintaining a [massive list](../cloudflare_users/domains) of websites to avoid.
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Unlike other tech giant adversaries to the CFT cause such as [GAFAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM)
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(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft), Cloudflare operates
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(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), Cloudflare operates
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surreptitiously and largely unknown to the general public, despite
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having access to ~20-30%+ of the world's web traffic and 80%+ of CDN
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market.
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Their existence is so much in the shadows that privacy orgs
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Their existence is so much in the shadows that privacy organizations
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like "[Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)" are largely oblivious to the threat of it.
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Mainstream privacy orgs not only neglect to protect web users from Cloudflare,
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but some of them actually naively use Cloudflare themselves and
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unwittingly work against their own interest and declared purpose.
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Some privacy and ethics advice sites like "Switching Software"
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actually recommend Cloudflare sites to those who entrust them to
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Mainstream privacy orgs not only *neglect* to protect web users from Cloudflare,
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but some of them actually naively *use* Cloudflare themselves and
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unwittingly work *against* their own interest and declared purpose.
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Some privacy and ethical advice sites like "Switching Software"
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actually *recommend* Cloudflare sites to those who entrust them to
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give advice pursuant to their own stated purpose.
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The problem is so rampant that it became important for the CFT
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The problem is so [rampant](../PEOPLE.md) that it became important for the CFT
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project's tracking of the Cloudflare problem to start keeping track of
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organizations and the pseudo-anonymous aliases of representatives who
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were spotted publicly promoting Cloudflare.
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@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ allegedly in response to complaints.
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> "target lists", with personal data, lists of employment status,
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> social media identities,
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Calling it a "target list" entails a presumption of how the list is
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Calling it a "`target list`" entails a presumption of *how* the list is
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used. For example, if a threat actor wants to join the CFT project to
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gain access to our internal operations, it is not CFT targeting them
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but rather CFT avoiding being targeted by their adversary. CFT has
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@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ gained trust by posing as those who support the CFT cause.
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Transparency is essential in exposing the corporate bias behind the
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information and advice you are getting. For example, a forum for talk
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about bicycles might require [Brompton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle) representatives to be tagged as
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about bicycles might require [Brompton company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle) representatives to be tagged as
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such so that other users are aware of the bias behind their posts.
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It would actually be reckless *not* to identify such conflicts of
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interest. This is particularly important when dealing with Cloudflare
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because they have proven to publish misinformation regularly.
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Codeberg's move to conceal who represents a company ultimately
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promotes corruption and deception.
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because they have *proven* to publish misinformation regularly.
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Codeberg's move to *conceal* who represents a company ultimately
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*promotes* corruption and deception.
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Are forums hosted in Germany really forced to operate
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non-transparently and conceal such conflicts of interest from the
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public? Unlikely.
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public? *Unlikely*.
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For Codeberg to allege CFT tracks "personal data" with social media
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identities is perversely deceptive. CFT did not track personal data
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