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by amclennon 2550 days ago
I'm a huge fan of Cloudflare in general, but sometimes I'm a bit uncomfortable with how much critical infrastructure is increasingly consolidated into a few single entities.
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Couldn't agree more. They offer an amazing service for free; however, we shouldn't forget that they control millions of websites at a DNS level.

That's a lot of power, and a lot of responsibility. If there was an internal breach at CloudFlare, a sizeable chunk of the modern web would be in danger.

Same here.

Though I find it almost equally commendable how much effort they put into applying their infrastructure know-how into making IPFS, Ethereum etc. accessible lately, and with that help pave a way for a more decentralized internet again.

As we've seen, if Google, Amazon, or other big names go down or lose routing, things break fast.