6. AI company hijacks your processes, trade secrets, and market to offer the same thing for cheaper than you can. Raises rates for competitors to cover its own token use and simultaneously drive the others out of business.

Failing in Ukraine… so Russia will now also provoke a heavily armed NATO country, and neighbour to Ukraine: Poland.

No. Serious doubt this is real.

Yeah, maybe. Could be a work around for some devices that will support it. I don’t see why not.

Yeah most routers will allow you to configure the traffic policy through their admin console. Some of the ISPs equipment won’t, if that’s all you’re using.

Lots of good suggestions.

The simplest answer assumes you have a router with a firewall that you can configure.

The basic idea is a deny rule targeting the ‘source’ IP address from reaching the ‘destination’ ip addresses.

There are various ways to do this, the best way will be very precise. Some folks have said separate VLAN, very good practice but not required. Some folks suggest pihole, thats really hit or miss unless you know your device relies explicitly on DNS and you also know how to manage that.

It will be easies for you to learn the basic traffic policy before proceeding to other more advanced suggestions, but you will have to probably at least learn that bit of network security to attempt this task. Low difficulty in the grand scheme of things networky.

I feel like its a green flag, seeing that cartoon jackal-girl pop up with the magnifying glass for a second.

It’s surely not universally the case but it’s a positive sign to me.

Cloudflare is the SSL/TLS endpoint between you and the application.

When you use Cloudflare, data is encrypted between a client and Cloudflare (using ‘their’ SSL cert), they unencrypt it and inspect so they can process it, caching etc, then it’ can be encrypted between Cloudflare and the backend using your own backend certificate.

So Cloudflare can see everything, its required for them to do what they do

Oh, you definitely got why I’m against Cloudflare…

Cloudflare has bot-mitigation built in, sure. So why would someone Anubis between their app and Cloudflare as it fulfills it’s reverese proxy role, idk. It seemed like that person was trying to explain to me where Anubis was supposed to fit in sequence here. It’s meant for the reverse proxy scenarios specificed in the example (nginx, Caddy, and others)

You are also correct. The “free” DDoS mitigation is an irrelevant argument against the privacy implications of using Cloudflare. Cloudflare isn’t the only DDoS mitigation option.

*BuT iT’s FrEe! *

Is it, really?

Yeah, I accept your apology. Anubis self-hosted and open source. I suppose you COULD use it between Cloudflare and your service, but why WOULD you?

Correct. That is an accurate description of my post.

Cloudflare was the reason why I changed instances, I specifically sought one that used Anubis instead. There is no other reason why I changed instances, this is the lemmy privacy community.