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This might help you understand things a little better. I would advise staying away from Cloudflare if you are self-hosting for privacy.
Quite clearly NO It is a central office that now answers a large part of the DNS questions; apart from the fact that they so often have failures.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CF | CloudFlare |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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You can use CF Tunnel so you don't need to expose any ports from your router. They'll also do SSL termination for you as well. You can use their free plan for this AFAIK. You can also run your own SSL proxy as well with HAProxy or Nginx. I'd just use CF, it's easier TBH.
Be aware hosting media thru their proxy is breaking their ToS. Not saying anything will happen, but be mindful.
Skip Emby and look into setting up Jellyfin with Nginx proxy manager. At the end of the day, whatever solution you go with be sure to enable good password security or more advanced security options like 2FA for your exposed Jellyfin service.
I only use cloudflare for Home Assistant and Bitwarden, just not to have many layers where a problem could happen as those 2 services are critical.
I rent a VPS with Authentik and Wireguard for the rest, like Nextcloud, Emby etc. But it's huge hassle with ssl certificates, especially with Let's encrypt ones.
But honestly I've never used it, except the HA and Bitwarden. When I'm on vacation I just want to experience as much as I can from the location I'm at. And I'm trying to stay away from computers when I'm away. And my family really does not care about Emby. So I'll probably stop it.
And BTW you probably shouldn't pass video streams through cloudflare as it's against their TOS. Although I didn't hear about anyone who has been banned.
If you want simple and no hassle solution, just use Tailscale or ZeroTier.
You're asking on Lemmy, so you're going to get a lot of privacy related answers. For usability, Cloudflare tunnels are a super easy and free way to setup and don't involve your family members having to VPN into your network with Tailscale or Wireguard. This is especially useful if they are streaming from a smart TV or media stick.
Is it the most privacy-friendly? No. You're giving up a little bit of that for convenience and lower maintenance. IMO for my threat model, it's worth it.