> This may not sound that bad - after all, they're just a service provider, right? - but let's put this in context for a moment. Currently, CloudFlare essential

> This may not sound that bad - after all, they're just a service provider, right? - but let's put this in context for a moment. Currently, CloudFlare essentially controls 11% of the 10k biggest websites, over 8% of the 100k biggest websites (source), and almost 5% of sites on the entire web (source). According to their own numbers from 2012(!), they had more traffic than several of the most popular sites and services on earth combined, and almost half the traffic of Facebook. It has only grown since. And unlike every other backbone provider and mitigation provider, they can read your traffic in plaintext, TLS or not. https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/ https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/ Amazon and Akamai are both larger providers than Cloudflare. Akamai also can function similarly to the criticism leveled against Cloudflare (i.e. No TLS to the edge, so it can be meddled with.) Tbh, I'd be more worried about Amazon's position on that pie than Cloudflare since its comparable to Google's. https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Releases-January-2016-US-Desktop-Search-Engine-Rankings https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Releases... Its rarely healthy for any market to have a majority owned by a single player, even if Tech tends to generate winner-take-most situations in the marketplace.