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1895 points _l4jh | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.209s | source
1. koolba ◴[] No.16728436[source]
> We committed to never writing the querying IP addresses to disk and wiping all logs within 24 hours.

> Cloudflare's business has never been built around tracking users or selling advertising. We don't see personal data as an asset; we see it as a toxic asset. While we need some logging to prevent abuse and debug issues, we couldn't imagine any situation where we'd need that information longer than 24 hours.

How about aggregate stats? Will CloudFlare be keeping track of any long term usage statistics per domain?

I'm not talking about tracking the person making the request. I'm referring to tracking the hostnames that are being resolved. Given the near 1:1 mapping between user's accessing a website and DNS resolution for that website[1], wide scale usage of something like this gives decent analytics on net usage of any website even if it's not served by CloudFlare.

[1]: Assuming the DNS response cache times are low enough that a new user session to a website would require a fresh DNS request to resolve the website's IP.