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There's a CloudFlare engineer who posts prolifically here on HN; he's denied that they sell data of any kind numerous times. I think it's safe to take them at t

• flukus 10y ago
  You think it's safe to take the word of an anonymous stranger on the internet?
  • thehardsphere 10y ago
    Yes. There is nothing particularly dangerous about accepting claims from strangers on the internet at face value. I don't use their service, so I'm not going to be harmed by anything he says if he is lying or if he is telling the truth. If I decide later to use their service or if he says something that seems false or misleading when taken at face value, I can adjust my level of skepticism accordingly.
• bostik 10y ago
  /me turns up the snark. Equating John Graham-Cumming to a random engineer has, on HN at least, about the same weight as equating PG to a financially succesful blogger. The statement is factually accurate but deliberately ignores the wider context. Yes - I'm painfully aware that I just used the halo effect as a weapon. But the fact is that provenance and pedigree matter.
• mdb333 10y ago
  You can create "value" without needing to sell your data. By offering free services to small sites they can gather more data on browser profiles, attack patterns, attackers, etc. which they can use to improve their techniques, tuning, intel, analytics, etc. Still, I would assume by signing their ToS you are agreeing to some hefty terms.