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I had the same reaction. As I was reading the article, I started asking myself "Hold on, what's in it for you? You're still a private company. How are you going
by bbx 8y ago
I had the same reaction. As I was reading the article, I started asking myself "Hold on, what's in it for you? You're still a private company. How are you going to make money?". I then reached the "Ok, Sure, But You’re Still a Profit-Seeking Company" section. It's as if the article was reading my mind.
Every free product comes with a catch. When this catch is not clearly explained by the company, I always feel it's because the reason is too "shady" to acknowledge publicly (like Gmail and Facebook gathering data for advertisers). I'm probably naive to believe the reason here is vastly different, but the tone and style of this article puts Cloudflare closer to Apple than to Google privacy-wise in my eyes.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThe choice to omit any sort of sign-in or account feature for the app is also a very stark difference. Even most apps with the stated goal of improving your privacy requires some sort of account. While it's true that if Cloudflare was evil, they could fairly likely identify you from metadata, that's a lot more complex and a lot more error-prone than having you sign in. I am curious though if this will extend to their premium Warp+ offering though, as presumably they need to identify a paying customer. Perhaps if they're entirely built off of IAP on whatever platforms their clients are on, they can avoid this problem entirely?
- eastdakota 8y agoWe'll have to take payment for the paid feature, obviously, but plan to use the Apple and Google payment systems for that. I'm not an expert on the nitty gritty of that, but I don't think that gives us access to any of your personal details. We've always thought of personally identifiable information as a toxic asset and something we try to minimize collecting whenever we can.