Comment by sophacles
It is MITM, but is it an attack? Literally the website owner hires Cloudflare explicity to decrypt and filter the traffic. Attack implies that it's unwanted behavior, yet the reality seems to imply that its wanted behavior by the site owner at a minimum, although continued use of the site by visitors also suggests that they want that behavior (or they'd go elsewhere).
Isn’t the attack assuming that NSA/FBI/TLO has full access to the MITM connection at will? I mean that doesn’t seem too far fetched does it give various revelations over the years and things like The Patriot Act actually passing when it’s obviously unconstitutional