MITM for hire..
They should go to prison for this.
Bit caching biz Cloudflare on Friday teased website publishers with the prospect of being able to run JavaScript at the edge of its content delivery network, a capability that promises performance, security, and reliability improvements. The outfit puts copies of customers' websites and content at various locations around the …
Adam 52: I use the equivalent feature at Akamai
Also JavaScript, or something else?
As a more general question, what would be a better choice than JS and Service Worker API for what CloudFlare are providing, and why?
Regardless of (endlessly debatable) faults, if the target users are likely to be already familiar with the tools, it does mean less to learn, which surely has some value.
But that makes click fraud much easier too. If outbrain expects to see loads of requests originate from the cloudflare boundary, and it pays them out as genuine impressions, wouldn't it be easy for a dodgy website to pretend to have served more ads than they have actually sent to end users?