> We'd die if someone else came up with the technical solution This reasoning does not prevent Google from slowly making itself irrelevant by changing the web

> We'd die if someone else came up with the technical solution This reasoning does not prevent Google from slowly making itself irrelevant by changing the web to such an extent as to make its search algorithm impossible to get any useful results from. > For example, on the network level we've pushed for BCP-38 over and over again to deal with spoofing. That is a point in your favor, I will concede. > Give me a fucking break. Cloudflare is a huge company with more and more power over the entire internet, and it is constantly urging people to only use the internet through Cloudflare, in numerous ways. You do not get a “fucking break”.