cloudflare-tor/what-to-do.md

What you can do to resist Cloudflare?

Website consumer

• If the website you like is using Cloudflare, tell them not to use Cloudflare.

You are just helping corporate censorship and mass surveillance.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351

• Try not to use their service. Remember you are being watched by Cloudflare.

• Search for other website. There are many alternatives and opportunites on the internet!

• If your browser is Firefox, use one of these add-ons.

Name	Can Block	Can Notify
Block Cloudflare MITM Attack	Yes	Yes
Block Cloudflare MITM Attack	Yes	Yes
Are links vulnerable to MITM?	No	Yes
Third-party Request Blocker (AMO)	Yes	Yes
Third-party Request Blocker	Yes	Yes
Detect Cloudflare	No	Yes

• Convince your friends to use Tor Browser on the daily basis. Anonymity should be the standard of the open internet!

Website owner / Web developer

• Do not use Cloudflare solution. You are loser if you fall to that easy solution. You can do better than that, right?

• Install Web Application Firewall (such as OWASP) and Fail2Ban on your server and configure it properly.

• Set up Tor Onion Service or I2P insite if you believe in freedom and welcome anonymous users.

• Ask for advice from other Clearnet/Tor dual website operators and make anonymous friends! :)

Software user

• If you use Debian GNU/Linux, or any derivative, subscribe to bug #831835. And if you can, help verify the patch, and help the maintainer come to the right conclusion on whether it should be accepted.

• Always recommend Tor Browser for desktop and Tor Browser for Android, Orfox for smartphone. Other software's privacy is imperfect. This doesn't mean Tor browser is "perfect". There is no 100% secure nor 100% private on the internet and technology.

• Don't want to use "Tor"? You can use Tor Browser without Tor, and this is the best option for you.

How?

1. Download Tor Browser and launch it.
2. Open Add-ons Manager (about:addons) and disable EVERYTHING but "Torbutton". Do NOT remove them.
3. Open about:config and search "extensions.torbutton.use_nontor_proxy". Set it to "false".
4. Go to Options, scroll down to "Network Proxy". Click "Settings" and select "No proxy".
5. Close Tor Browser.

Other guide is here.

Let's talk about other software's privacy...

• If you really need to use Firefox, pick "Firefox ESR". ESR is developed for company and organizations, thus some spyware code is disabled by default. Portable version is here.

• Remember, Mozilla is using Cloudflare service. They're also using Cloudflare's DNS service on their product D'oh!

• Mozilla officially rejected this ticket.

• PaleMoon developer loves Cloudflare.

• Chrome is a spyware.

• Brave Browser whitelist Facebook/Twitter trackers.

• Microsoft Edge lets Facebook run Flash code behind users' backs.

"Mozilla Firefox" user

• Don't use Firefox Nightly. It will send debug-level information to Mozilla servers without opt-out method. Mozilla servers are behing Cloudflare.

• It is possible to prohibit Firefox to connect to Mozilla servers. Create a file "/distribution/policies.json". Mozilla's policy-templates guide. Keep in mind this trick might stop working in later version because Mozilla likes to whitelist themselves. Use firewall and DNS filter to block them completely.

"WebsiteFilter": {
  "Block": [
  "*://*.mozilla.com/*",
  "*://*.mozilla.net/*",
  "*://*.mozilla.org/*",
  "*://*.firefox.com/*",
  "*://*.thunderbird.net/*",
  "*://*.cloudflare.com/*"
  ]
},

• Report a bug on mozilla's tracker, telling them not to use Cloudflare/TRR. There was a bug report on bugzilla. Many people were posted their concern, however the bug was hidden by the admin last year.

• To disable DOH, enter about:config?filter=network.trr in the address bar then set "network.trr.mode" to 5 to completely disable it. The value "5" means "Off by choice". (If you really need to use non-ISP DNS, consider using OpenNIC Tier2 DNS service.)

• Tell us if you see this functionality start to creep up beyond Firefox Nightly into more stable versions of Firefox.

Action

• Tell others around you about the dangers of Cloudflare. But don't talk with NSA employee; you'll be definitely marked... just kidding!

• Help improve this repository, both the lists, the arguments against it and the details.

• Document and make very public where things go wrong with Cloudflare (and similar companies), making sure to mention this repository when you do so

• Get more people using Tor by default so they can experience the web from the perspective of different parts of the world.

• Start groups, in social media and meatspace, dedicated to liberating the world from Cloudflare.

• Where appropriate, link to these groups on this repository - this can be a place for coordinating working together as groups.

• Start a coop that can provide a meaningful non corporate alternative to Cloudflare.

• Let us know of any alternatives to help at least provide multiple layered defence against Cloudflare.

• Try using globalist to maintain this list.

• If you are in the United States of America and the website in question is a bank or an accountant, try to bring legal pressure under the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, or the Americans with DIsabilities Act and report back to us how far you get.

• If the website is a government site, try to bring legal pressure under the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.

• If you are EU citizen, contact the website to send your personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation. If they refuse to give you your information, that's a violation of the law.

• For companies that claim to offer service on their website try reporting them as "false advertising" to consumer protection organizations and BBB. Cloudflare websites are served by Cloudflare servers.

• the ITU suggest in the US context that Cloudflare is starting to get big enough that antitrust law might be brought down upon them.