It's a planet-scale MITM?

It's a cache. My tiny websites couldn't survive getting hammered by AI bots without them.

dbbk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So you're against all CDNs?

3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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A CDN doesn't necessarily have to perform a MitM. We really need more nuanced terminology to distinguish the various approaches.

	▲	gruez 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Right, but practically speaking all CDNs are MITMs. If you're against cloudflare you should be against cloudfront, akamai, etc. as well.
	▲	edaemon 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		How would they cache and serve responses without decrypting the traffic?
	▲	sandeepkd 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ideally yes, the TLS termination does not need to happen for caching purposes. Challenge is that in practice every business wants to be sticky and try to provide more functionalities which do require TLS termination. Most people either trust CDN's or they do not understand MitM so it does not concerns them. Plus they are getting certificate management and DDOS prevention capabilities.