[tomschlick]

> There is also an unreasonable dependency on CloudFlare kool-aid for HIBP and his other services.

How it is unreasonable? Do you criticize the hosting platform / cdn of every service you use?

CF has been a huge help to Troy with optimizing caching and helping him with the k-anonymity setup to make the scale of HIBP possible with less infrastructure. Their network is top notch (sub 10ms for most population centers) and they are trying to give back to the broader community by donating the bandwidth and cache to greater good projects like this.

[lmm]

If your whole raison d'etre is to be a trusted source on privacy and security matters, then putting yourself in a position where you can't speak objectively about the organisation that controls 10% of the internet's traffic is massively compromising that. I'm sure Hunt will do his best, but how could anyone possibly make a fair judgement of something controversial like "Flexible SSL" when his livelihood is dependent on them?

[jgrahamc]

I am sure that literally any one of our competitors would give Troy their service for free. He's free to leave whenever he wants. And he's 100% free to criticize us while remaining a customer.

[smoyer]

I love that you're here ... and as transparent as possible. Thanks for the work you do in keeping the Internet running (and as far as possible - "safe".

[jgrahamc]

Well, I've been here close to 13 years (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc). Seems a shame to leave now.