A user discovered that Cloudflare silently injects a JavaScript analytics snippet when switching nameservers to their platform, even on JS-free sites. The feature required manual opt-out through the Analytics dashboard, which the author criticized as invasive and argued should be opt-in by default.
Background
Cloudflare is a major CDN and DNS provider that acquired or built analytics features, with automatic site detection when nameservers are switched to their platform.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Aug 17, 2026 at 01:49 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10