Maybe their point is just privatisation or something.
For example a dns provider like cloudfare just could artificially make latency costs for servers that don’t agree with something cloudfare does bigger, which would result in them being less likely to be displayed in a search result because a search engine would have IP adresses faster from other servers. This obviously depends on if a search engine makes dns requests or just provides hostnames for the end user.
But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.
They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that’s in the form of good publicity. Maybe they’re hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.
That suggests they’re less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand’s reputation. Maybe they’ll stay nice indefinitely.
They also have payed plans. It’s actually nice of them to offer free plans for those in dire need. When your business critical site (eg. your small business shop) gets DDOSed and your hoster wants drastically more money for the traffic or will shut it down, both of which threatening your existance, cloudflare is a blessing.
Yeah this post is nearly upsettingly ignorant.
Cloudflare is just about the only big internet company out there objectively doing good things for the Internet.
This seems like saying road construction makes driving objectively worse or security guards make a stadium venue objectively worse.
BACK IN MY DAY WE BROUGHT RIFLES TO GAME DAY TO TAUNT THE PLAYERS
Maybe their point is just privatisation or something.
For example a dns provider like cloudfare just could artificially make latency costs for servers that don’t agree with something cloudfare does bigger, which would result in them being less likely to be displayed in a search result because a search engine would have IP adresses faster from other servers. This obviously depends on if a search engine makes dns requests or just provides hostnames for the end user.
And then you could change your 1.1.1.1 to 8.8.8.8 and be free 🫢
using google is not what i’d call free
Yeah. Maybe not 8.8.8.8. More like 9.9.9.9.
Right now.
But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.
They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that’s in the form of good publicity. Maybe they’re hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.
They have existed for over a decade wtf are you on about. They’re publicly traded and doing very well.
This is more nonsense in a thread full of nonsense.
That suggests they’re less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand’s reputation. Maybe they’ll stay nice indefinitely.
Anyone providing services for a profit could pull a Unity at anytime. Still, I think you need more for the “slippery slope” argument.
They also have payed plans. It’s actually nice of them to offer free plans for those in dire need. When your business critical site (eg. your small business shop) gets DDOSed and your hoster wants drastically more money for the traffic or will shut it down, both of which threatening your existance, cloudflare is a blessing.