I understand that for their WAF, DDOS and threat detection products they need to have a very large amount of traffic going through them. They have been very agg

I understand that for their WAF, DDOS and threat detection products they need to have a very large amount of traffic going through them. They have been very aggressive with their free service to achieve that, to the benefit of all their customers (including the free ones). Some could see that as a push to at centralisation, I don't. What I don't understand, or believe, is that they want to be the sole (as in centralised) network for the internet. I don't believe they as a company, or the people running it, want that. They obviously have ambition to be one of the largest networking/cloud providers, and are achieving that. I don't intend either to dismiss your concerns (which are a legitimate thing to have, centralisation would be very bad), my suggestion with the meme comment is that there is at times a trend to "brigade" on large successful companies in a meme-like way. That isn't to suggest you were.