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This kind of makes sense. Cloudflare is essentially a giant membrane / shield / firewall for your website (or network). Area 1 could be argued as roughly the

• ryanmcbride 5y ago
  I'm in the cloudflare email beta and it really just lets you forward emails, I'm guessing the functionality will be significantly expanded in the coming years!
  • eastdakota 5y ago
    Yes. That's the plan. Open Area1's incredible tech to everyone. Make phishing a thing you only read about in history books. One edit: months, not years.
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• dannyw 5y ago
  Yep. I trust cloudflare more than Gmail actually. One isn't known for having algorithms delete accounts without human appeal.
  • systemvoltage 5y ago
    It is much deeper than that. The incentives for advertisement are misaligned between the user and the service provider. Cloudflare is akin to Apple in this regard where privacy is feature, not a bug for their business model. Google can engage in their core advertisement business or they can provide cloud services and Business apps. Not both. It's like hiring a security guard that also has a second job of stealing what they're guarding.
    • pabs3 5y ago
      > Cloudflare ... privacy is feature, not a bug for their business model. They are literally a MITM service.
      • andrewjf 5y ago
        But to OPs point, their incentives are not aligned with advertising. Cloudflare is not incentivized to sell user data or misuse data for targeted ads or mining data. If they start selling data they gather as a result of their product they will burn user trust and goodwill in a single day and seriously harm their business and brand. So they would never do it intentionally.
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    • Goety 5y ago
      well said.
  • markdown 5y ago
    > One isn't known for having algorithms delete accounts without human appeal. I once lost access to my Cloudflare account, and the only way to get support... wait for it.... required you to log into your account.
    • toastal 5y ago
      Why are companies doing this? Same happened to me with PayPal. My 2FA was through Google Voice, and they blocked Google Voice so I couldn't authenticate. Now I refuse to use them. Recently I emailed a band to get an alternate payment option to buy a t-shirt just to not do business with through them.
    • eganist 5y ago
      > I once lost access to my Cloudflare account, and the only way to get support... wait for it.... required you to log into your account. cc jgrahamc
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  • Ansil849 5y ago
    > I trust cloudflare more than Gmail actually. One isn't known for having algorithms delete accounts without human appeal. No, instead it's known for leaking private customer data (think authentication tokens and the like) onto the public internet [1]. Imagine if Gmail ever had a bug like that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
    • KptMarchewa 5y ago
      I fear (potentially?) hostile agents like Google more than bugs.
      • Ansil849 5y ago
        Not sure why you think Google is a potential hostile agent, but not Cloudflare?
• jws 5y ago
  Did you just juxtapose "private" and "Gmail"? I used to have domains whose MX records went to google, but I had no expectation that the mail would be private. "Just works" and "free" were powerful selling points. I was ok letting them analyze my email in exchange for providing the service.
  • TIPSIO 5y ago
    Yes. You are right... but you missed my point of the service adding another layer between your exchanged messages. It could be any email provider.