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Funny to see nobody's mentioned Cloudflare yet. They're not making any money: This is presumably their exact plan: Offer CDN services and other web infrastruct
by maxk42 3y ago
Funny to see nobody's mentioned Cloudflare yet. They're not making any money: This is presumably their exact plan: Offer CDN services and other web infrastructure services at a loss for a prolonged period of time until the competition is destroyed, then jack up rates and eat the market.
- refulgentis 3y ago+1, they really made my eyebrows raise recently. They're absurdly overaggressive on flagging requests as scraping...and will sell you a CORS proxy for scraping, with a big fat "I'm a scraper" tag on it. They get two customers and the web-as-commons and the scraper are both worse off.
- dceddia 3y agoThis coupled with their device attestation stuff scares the hell out of me. Once enough of the internet is shielded by Cloudflare, and they only allow access to authorized (read: uniquely identifiable) devices (or else you have to answer a captcha on every request)… I just don’t see a very good future for the free internet.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoAren’t there other CDN providers like AWS that are pretty stable?