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CachyOS looks really good, and I want to try it. But what's the effect of being sponsored by cloudflare? Is it FOSS? Does it collect data? What's Cloudflare getting out of the sponsorship?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clownflare is trash, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it in this particular case.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're fighting against AI scrapers, are objectively one of the best CDN providers and they offer a quite decent DNS resolver service. I wouldn't call them trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.