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If Comcast breaks the contract then Mozilla will simply change the default back to Cloudflare DNS.

• mike_d 6y ago
  Out of the pot into the fire. 24 years ago a group of Stanford students started Architext. They took a few million from Kleiner Perkins, called themselves Excite, and started a search engine and internet provider. They were a good, ethical, well ran technology company. Over the years bits and pieces were chopped up and merged and acquired and spun off based on what generated shareholder value. Parts of that old soul live in on now in the current Comcast. The same thing will happen to Cloudflare. Matthew Prince will move on, or retire, or get hit by a bus. The board will be taken over by an activist investor. It will get merged with ExxonTacoBell, which also now owns the 2nd largest ad network. They will figure out the data gold mine the company built under total ethical pretenses, and the stock price will triple. There isn't a damn thing a single current Cloudflare employee can do to stop it except stop participating in the centralization of the internet behind a single MitM proxy.
  • Nemo_bis 6y ago
    I sure hope that Mozilla writes contracts so that they can't be transferred by sale or merger. That's the most basic protection from your friendly counterparty joining your sworn enemy.