Cloudflare uses HTTP to connect to your website before caching the content. I’ve always found it highly insecure. You could have HTTPS with Letsencrypt, but you need to deactivate Cloudflare when you want to renew (or use the other validation that is complex enough that I didn’t succeed to do it).

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nottorp 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't pick on this particular SSL requirement, pick on the deluge of requirements that only make sense for a site that sells something or handles personal data (i.e. has accounts). They get extended to $RANDOM_SITE that only serves static text and the occasional cat photo for no good reason except "your cats will be more secure!".

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ptsd_isv 12 hours ago | parent [-]

GP: At least on business plans this is incorrect, it defaults to (last time I checked) accepting any SSL certificate including self signed from edge to origin and it’s a low friction option to enforce either valid or provided CA/PubKey certs for the same path.

Parent: those innocuous cat photos are fine in the current political climate… “First they came for the cat pic viewers, but I did not speak up…”

	▲	nottorp 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wrong metaphor though? How does SSL on a -ing public site protect you from being arrested by miniluv? It’s public, you want everyone to see the cat photos, that’s why you set up the site. On the contrary, SSL certs mean another party through which miniluv can track you. They prove or are supposed to prove identity not hide it.

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AnonC 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The statement that Cloudflare uses HTTP to connect to your website can be false depending on how you configure it. For years, I have had personal websites with Cloudflare as the CDN and with Let’s Encrypt providing certificates on the web server. All I do is choose Full (Strict) in the TLS settings on Cloudflare. So the connection between the end user to Cloudflare and from Cloudflare to my web server are on HTTPS. No deactivation of Cloudflare required on my end during renewal (my web host, like many others, has the certificate generation automated and getting a TLS certificate just a toggle on my admin dashboard).