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by jgrahamc 2302 days ago
I understand that the article is written by CloudFlare, a CDN company with its own interests.

Not sure what you mean by that, but Zack wasn't writing something to further some secret interest Cloudflare has in the structure of URLs.
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Veen 2302 days ago
It's always prudent to be circumspect about the motives of writers of what is essentially marketing content.
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shellac 2302 days ago
I think the operative phrase is 'a CDN company'.

URLs are names for things (companies, mailboxes, pictures of cats), but they're also (encoded) directions to get representations of those named things.

CloudFlare is concerned with the mechanics mostly, the latter. Things like Wikidata, knowledge bases, schema.org are interested in the former perspective.

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nl 2301 days ago
Cloudflare has Edge Workers and lots of other technologies that would be helpful to the semantic web.

Anything that is URL addressable is great for Cloudflare.

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