Also, the threat to privacy. If I turn on iCloud Private Relay I get bombarded with CloudFlare captchas. It’s so annoying I sometimes turn it off just for that reason.

Having some all knowing entity running the internet has a lot of downsides.

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stingraycharles 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is something the owners of the website can configure. Private relay actually uses Cloudflare exit nodes, but if the website owner decides to configure their site with maximum protection, captchas is what you’ll get.

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ArcHound 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There are two caveats though:

1) users gave to configure this and not all will 2) you have to trust Cloudflare

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tick_tock_tick 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They are using Apple private relay; they are already trusting Cloudflare.

	▲	ArcHound 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And that's the other thing - how can you be sure which parties you have to trust to use a service? We, tech people can sometimes figure it out. The normal consumer doesn't really have a chance.

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sroussey 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I run iCloud private relay and I get very few of their captchas. Actually, I think they are concentrated on just a couple of sites.

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tourmalinetaco 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, it’s practically every website for me, and sometimes even on my bare IP.