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please remove cloudflare from my computer....I never signed up for it.

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Jeanne's Computer Account
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Please remove cloudflare from my computer. I have been using Firefox for ages and now I'm wondering about going somewhere else....

Please remove cloudflare from my computer. I have been using Firefox for ages and now I'm wondering about going somewhere else....

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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Hi Jeanne,

What do you have set here? see screenshots

James
James
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Also in what way do you think cloudflare is bad ?

Jeanne's Computer Account
Jeanne's Computer Account Question owner

Is there a way to remove cloudflare from my computer. I don't have an account with them because I never signed up for it . It may have come with an update from Firefox/Mozilla?

jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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We get Cloudflare bad... can you reply to my question?

jonnyonenote
jonnyonenote

James said
Also in what way do you think cloudflare is bad ?

I'll tell you why Cloudflare is bad. For the past 2 weeks, it has been intervening my access to many legitimate web sites.

Now, as of 15 May 2022, it is preventing from going to ANY website. It brings up a 05 May 2022 Wayback Archive web page instead, and I can't go any further.

I've removed Cloudflare's 2 DNS addresses. Little Snitch is still reporting that cloudlfare wants to intercede even my Parallels accounts!

This has gone too far. I can't use Firefox anymore (I'm on 100.2), so I've had to switch over to Google Chrome, Bravo Browser, etc.

This is a real shame, but I can't understand why Mozilla (*of all companies!*) would allow Cloudflare to literally take over and destroy their once-wonderful Browser.

cor-el
cor-el
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Is this a problem with the Cloudflare DDOS protection service that make CF show a challenging page before redirecting to the actual website ?

Cloudflare is a company that offers network services to websites. Websites can use a service to protect their servers against (DDOS) attacks. If a website is protected by Cloudflare and you see a CF challenging page then there is nothing you can do about this. Cloudflare also has DNS servers like Firefox uses for DNS over HTTPS.

Modified by cor-el

Terry
Terry

If you want to disable DNS over HTTPS, go to Settings > General > Network Settings (at the very bottom of the page). Click on the button labelled Settings; you will get a pop-up and at the bottom of the pop-up is Enable DNS over HTTPS which you want to unselect (it is selected in the attached screenshot).

Note that it is possible to create exceptions using about:config but it seems you have many exceptions.