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Nowadays it feels like the kind of thing CloudFlare would launch as it’s right up their alley. And seems appropriate if FastMail is having DDoS issues.
by atonse 5y ago
Nowadays it feels like the kind of thing CloudFlare would launch as it’s right up their alley.
And seems appropriate if FastMail is having DDoS issues.
- Thorentis 5y agoHistory really does repeat itself. It won't be long before Cloudflare provides email, a search engine, cloud hosting, DNS, etc. and before you know it, we have another Google! I would much prefer multiple smaller companies that do one thing well, than a monolith that, even assuming they did everything well, has complete control over our digital lives.
- loriverkutya 5y agoCloudflare is not an ad company, Google is.
- Shared404 5y agoI'm not a fan of Cloudflare increasing centralization, but I'd take a Google-sized Cloudflare and Cloudflare-sized Google over our curre t situation any day.
- tbyehl 5y agoCloudFlare is not an ad company, yet.
- donarb 5y agoCloudFlare doesn't need to be an ad company, they have plenty of paying customers.
- blitzar 5y agoWith great control of the internet comes great advertising revenue.
- true_religion 5y agoThey could just be an ISP. They can take money, provide services, and be regulated like a utility.
- blitzar 5y agoIn the United States, ISPs have had the right to sell your private browsing history since 2017, as long as they anonymized your personal data.
- riffic 5y agothey did announce free forwarding: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/ https://www.cloudflare.com/email-forwarding-waitlist-sign-up/ https://www.cloudflare.com/email-forwarding-waitlist-sign-up...