Comment by jazzyjackson

Between let’s encrypt and Caddy defaults, SSL termination is easy these days and cloudlfares insistence on doing it for me has turned me away from their products. I gather that reading the logs is part and parcel of their product, as the gatekeeper to high traffic sites they need all the signals they can get for what malicious traffic looks like.

I don’t think it requires a conspiracy, it’s just a market demand for such a product