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Cloudflare is now too big to fail. They are in the category of being able to get away doing horrible, biased, unethical shit and no one can do a thing because
by ProAm 3y ago
Cloudflare is now too big to fail. They are in the category of being able to get away doing horrible, biased, unethical shit and no one can do a thing because its now a battle of lawyers vs lawyers. They are not all bad, but its like saying Google does shady shit? Of course they do, but what are you going to do about it? Money is power, and power is everything.
- _8j50 3y agoFar from it. They are popular among the tech crowd for sure bur akamai and others are very popular too. Most sites don't use them either. Many if their products overlap with cloud providers' offerings too.
- ProAm 3y agoIm just saying they are big enough you arent going to fight them.. Look how loose their T/C are. They serve a purpose, but any liberty they decide to follow you are at their whim unless you have legitimate money to fight. And for 99% its not worth a 1 year fight and the amount of money. Just like all big tech, its largely un-realistically-regulated so they can do what they want.
- djbusby 3y agoYea, like other providers (eg Twilio, Stripe) they can pick/choose who to allow as clients. Kick ClientA out because they did some vague, hand-wavy violation but allow ClientB (a direct competitor to A) continued use. Its not just these mentioned, many corporate ToS give them too much power and it's insurmountable for individuals or small business to fight back.
- catlifeonmars 3y agoAre there any competitive counter examples, or is this just par for the course? Not saying that makes it ok, but now I am curious.
- tbarbugli 3y agodont use them if you dont like them, it is a free world
- ProAm 3y agoThat's not the argument