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History 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
by Thorentis 5y ago
History 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.