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by nemothekid 1630 days ago
>You can't ensure the CEO of a company doesn't null route you.

So the alternatives aren't better than Cloudflare, Superkuh just had an axe to grind specifically with Cloudflare. And there is no an alternative solution that wrests control from a CEO having a bad day.

At the end of the day, he's still at the whims of the Cloudflare/Bunny/Akamai and if he wants to be fully in control he must spend millions building his own CDN.

It's not as if Cloudflare has major switching costs either.

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Any alternative is better than everyone using Cloudflare. This would be true even if Cloudflare hadn't already demonstrated their untrustworthiness. It's true for LetsEncrypt even if LE is awesome and really improved the internet and there are other options. If people only use one thing in practice it is a locus of control.
"Why are you using this thing that solves your problems and does it cheaper than you making your own solution to your problems? You're leading to centralization of the internet!" Good luck changing human nature. Writing these comments here is helping, I'm sure of it. /s