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I’m not a fan of fingerprinting either, although good luck avoiding it considering just how much of the web is behind Cloudflare.

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the fediverse largely prides itself on no tracking, in fact in the past instances that used cloudflare have been harshly criticised.

This is against the fediverse’s core values

I’ve had my server behind Cloudflare this entire time. Should I not be doing that? At a minimum I need something to hide my server’s real IP.

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