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by Aeolun 1380 days ago
What a weird argument.

Cloudflare is like a fire department that still fights fires in the homes of known pyromaniacs. Whether or not they set the fires themselves is irrelevant to the job of the fire department, if someone needs to stop them it’s the police.

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Not pyromaniacs necessarily but definitely “firestarter for hire”. Also a fire department that can scale and is paid privately. More fires mean more business.
More fires mean more business, but that’s kinda irrellevant to the goal of the fire department, which is to prevent burned out houses.

If the police never does anything about the firestarters for hire, it’s a bit hard to see how that would be the fire departments fault (and certaily not something they should solve by not fighting fires any more).

Or they are like an insurance provider that doesn't consider the risk of a particular client. That is good for growth but not ideal in the long term.