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+1 @cnst, what privacy concerns are you all afraid of with ECS ? archive.is will get informed that someone around IP range A.B.x.x tries to reach its website, just a few seconds later to see a connection from A.B.C.D.

The main reason that Cloudflare wouldn't share this info is to prevent competitors like Akamai to operate a CDN as good as them. It looks more like sabotaging competition than increasing privacy.

>>rvnx+(OP)
In practice this is one of the most common techniques used to deanonymize proxy users.

>>rvnx+(OP)
> The main reason that Cloudflare wouldn't share this info is to prevent competitors like Akamai to operate a CDN as good as them. It looks more like sabotaging competition than increasing privacy.

Exactly. Their own answers in the threads over here at HN are basically admitting as much — they claim to be working on solutions alternative to ECS, because Google and some others have more PoPs than Cloudflare does. They're obviously using this as a competitive advantage to slow down competing CDNs. And noone's talking about!

>>FDSGSG+y
How? If your client is leaking DNS outside of the confines of the proxy you're using, you've got bigger problems than ECS.

>>cnst+42
I don't disagree about DNS leaks being a separate problem, that doesn't change anything about what I said though.