Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
Users are reporting that Cloudflare silently injects JavaScript analytics snippets into websites when nameservers are switched to their service. The discussion highlights concerns over the lack of transparency and the difficulty of opting out of these tracking features.
Why it matters
This raises significant privacy and transparency concerns regarding how infrastructure providers manage user data and site configuration without explicit consent.
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics and then disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this.
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