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An aside from the comment, but I don't appreciate the derisive tone of their first paragraph: > a handful of elite tech companies decide to waste the time of l
by rattray 8y ago
An aside from the comment, but I don't appreciate the derisive tone of their first paragraph:
> a handful of elite tech companies decide to waste the time of literally billions of people with juvenile jokes that only they find funny.
I sort of agree, but it's not nice, and not necessary. It also isn't particularly classy to then go on to say "and we're so much better, because we do useful things".
(I do happen to find Cloudflare, as a company, so much better, and awesome things like 1.1.1.1 and warp make me really want to push my employer to use Cloudflare for all the things).
- redwards510 8y agoI think they were just trying to be extremely clear right away that this announcement is not an April Fool's joke.
- nacs 8y agoI actually loved that intro. Check out Stackoverflow for a horrendous example of an April fools "joke" today.
- nacs 8y agoScreenshot for people reading this outside of 4/1/2019: https://i.imgur.com/zCNbOTl.png https://i.imgur.com/zCNbOTl.png
- roberttod 8y agoAbsolutely, that part left a bitter taste in my mouth reading the rest of the article. Feels like they released this on April 1st just so they could make this claim, strange move.
- oarsinsync 8y agoOr because (in American calendars), today is 4/1, and the IP address for their DNS server is 1.1.1.1, or four ones.