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by anderspitman 1587 days ago
Not to mention Cloudflare Tunnel is a loss leader. Basically any new entrant has to either get funding or justify charging money for tunnel traffic.

Cloudflare Tunnel has gotten good enough there aren't a lot of ways to be better left. A couple would be offering e2ee and a less stringent ToS (technically anything other than normal HTML websites is not permitted, though I'm not aware of this ever being enforced, yet).
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NicoJuicy 1587 days ago
Cloudflare already has the bandwidth. I suppose tunnel doesn't cost much ( or even anything) compared to the rest since they pay for the size of the pipe.

When someone uses the tunnel, they never have to go outside of cloudflare. Since the traffic ( i suspect) would stay very local.

Perhaps it could be even cheaper in the end for them.

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anderspitman 1587 days ago
Good point, but they do still have to pay development costs for Cloudflare Tunnel.
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NicoJuicy 1587 days ago
That's why i explicitly mentioned the cost of the bandwidth.

I wasn't talking about the development/maintenance.

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