loophole.cloud tunnel service
from blamster19@programming.dev to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 18:44
https://programming.dev/post/34076638
from blamster19@programming.dev to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 18:44
https://programming.dev/post/34076638
Hello all! I’ve been getting into self-hosting stuff and ran into an issue with port forwarding my services to the internet. I don’t have access to my router’s config (provided by ISP), so I researched tunnels and there is ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel and other more well-known reverse proxy services, but I also stumbled upon loophole.cloud. I can’t find more information about it except a few Reddit comments here and there. Has anyone here actually used it and can say a few words about it?
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It’s just a hosted reverse proxy with a proprietary server backend, as far as I can tell. I don’t usually trust “free” things lime that. It’s not that expensive to do it yourself, the real expense come in high bandwidth flowing through the proxy which most self hosted applications for personal use don’t really do.
Anyway, with a reverse proxy on the security end there’s a chance of man in the middle attacks depending on the configuration. And on the privacy end, they will have the ability to log all connections. That may be where they’re planning to make money by selling that info and/or allowing MiTM attacks to inject ads like many ISPs have talked about. But “free” stuff usually isn’t actually free in the long term even if it is now while it’s being tested. Usually just takes a sale to a large corporation for it to become less free even of the original intent wasn’t to do that.
Thank you, you brought up a good point about them selling data. What alternatives do you suggest to expose my service to the internet for personal use away from home?