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I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

(david.coffee)
311 points eustoria | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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yegle ◴[16 Nov 25 21:52 UTC] No.45948757[source]▶
Free Cloudflare account cannot be used to serve my Plex server. To me that's a no-go.

The specific term is: https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...

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mandelken ◴[16 Nov 25 22:03 UTC] No.45948839[source]▶
My free account runs cloudflared tunnel just fine for jellyfin. Is it just plex?

I use the tunnel because my girlfriend cant install tailscale on her work laptop, so this way she can still login to jellyfin while traveling.

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369548684892826 ◴[16 Nov 25 23:03 UTC] No.45949257[source]▶
It’s not that it can’t do it, it’s that it’s against the terms of service to use it for video.
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mycall ◴[17 Nov 25 01:58 UTC] No.45950233{3}[source]▶
You can't play corporate videos over Cloudflare Warp? Where is the line drawn?
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tombert ◴[17 Nov 25 02:50 UTC] No.45950452{4}[source]▶
I think they don't want you using a boatload of bandwidth, since data proxies through their servers.
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wink ◴[17 Nov 25 14:14 UTC] No.45953721{5}[source]▶
Yes and that's what people are criticizing - it's just an arbitrary and thus very bad rule. Completely unrelated to CloudFlare, I streamed a single TV series from a friend's plex account 1-2y ago, that's less traffic than some of my friends use in 2 weeks.

I'm not saying they can't have that rule, it's their infra - I'm just saying that "a boatload of bandwidth" can be anything, depending on who you ask.

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1. tombert ◴[17 Nov 25 18:30 UTC] No.45956414{6}[source]▶
FWIW, even if it’s against the rules I have been using Cloudflare tunnels for my Jellyfin server for months and I haven’t even gotten a nastygram yet.

I think it’s more of a “we reserve the right to…” situation than anything else.