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Cloudflare accused of silently injecting analytics code

Cloudflare has reportedly been injecting its analytics JavaScript snippet into user websites without explicit consent. This practice was discovered by a user who switched their nameservers to Cloudflare to enable R2 bucket serving for their subdomain. The user found that their HTML-only, JavaScript-free site had analytics code inserted, which they had not agreed to. AI

IMPACT Potential impact on user trust and data privacy practices in web services.

RANK_REASON User-reported issue with a product's functionality.

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Cloudflare accused of silently injecting analytics code

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    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 buc

    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-on…