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title: Product compatibility
description: Cloudflare products that are and are not compatible with Privacy Gateway, including API Shield, Cache, and WAF.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png
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# Product compatibility

When [using Privacy Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/privacy-gateway/get-started/), the majority of Cloudflare products will be compatible with your application.

However, the following products are not compatible:

* [API Shield](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/): [Schema Validation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/schema-validation/) and [API discovery](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/api-discovery/) are not possible since Cloudflare cannot see the request URLs.
* [Cache](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/): Caching of application content is no longer possible since each between client and gateway is end-to-end encrypted.
* [WAF](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/): Rules implemented based on request content are not supported since Cloudflare cannot see the request or response content.

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