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hello-cloudflare
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captn3m0 / hello-cloudflare

hello-cloudflare

A public letter to Cloudflare to fix their snoopy vendor

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A public letter to Cloudflare to fix their snoopy vendor

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-01-07 15:08:50 UTC to 2023-01-03 14:15:37 UTC.

0122022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 2023

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Jan 20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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captn3m0·Jan 3, 2023Submission

Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

GitHub is being partially blocked in India by a prominent ISP (ACT) across multiple states under a sealed court order. You can find multiple reports here: https://twitter.com/search?q=Github%20%40actfibernet. It has shown up in news reports: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/github-cont... ACT is using SNI-sniffing to block raw.githubusercontent, unlike most other blocks, which are DNS based. ACT's block page claims it is under a court order to block the domain: > curl http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ > This URL has been blocked under the instructions in compliance with the orders of a Hon'ble Court. (Using HTTPS results in a dropped connection). Unfortunately, there is no easy way to find out if there is even a court order behind this block. A few times court orders are leaked, and a court case to get a single order publi
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shed took 3 years[0] . Other ISPs are known to block websites without court-order due to technical issues[1] for the last few weeks, GitHub previews on the website have refused to load, alongside some other interesting cases, such as extension previews breaking on VS Code (, Obsidian etc). Hopefully, GitHub is fighting a case to get this unblocked, and given the resources it has, to challenge the law here as well (the law gives no recourse as it stands). [0]: https://internetfreedom.in/delhi-hc-directs-meity-to-provide... [1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/hello-cloudflare/
294 points · Open discussion
Anunayj·Nov 10, 2022
People really underestimate the full scale of this, specially today with so many sites using cloudflare without strict ssl reverse proxy connection, Cloudflare Endpoints in India are INSIDE ISP networks [1], what this means is the ISP (and therefore by extension the government) sees EVERYTHING going out of cloudflare servers over http in plaintext. Worse ISP will also modify that content so you get the "This site has been blocked in India under diretions from [...]" over https! cause that's what cloudflare saw when it did it's (insecure) http request 1. https://github.com/captn3m0/hello-cloudflare
In Indian ISPs: We already give govt full access to web traffic

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