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Cloudflare Is the Biggest Man-in-the-Middle in History (And You're OK With It)

Cloudflare terminates TLS for roughly 20% of all web traffic. Every proxied HTTPS request is decrypted and re-encrypted on their servers. Here's what that means, why we accept it, and what the alternatives actually look like.

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1 min read · Apr 11, 2026