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		throw7 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem Is this true: from that core proxy diagram, I didn't realize cloudflare sees the full unencrypted packet between you and the server. If that's true, is there a way to tell (easily) whether a site is using cloudflare or not?

tempest_ 25 days ago | [–]

It is pretty easy to see if cloudflare is proxying a site.

Just ping the host and see if the ip belongs to CF.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/ips/

finally7394 25 days ago | [–]

The NSA has to see the data somehow, right?

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