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by onion2k 1362 days ago
please elaborate why this isn’t what I described

Approximately 1/3 of the most popular websites use Cloudflare[1]. That's not really an argument against the fact that Cloudflare might want to be 'the central server of the internet', but it's a suggestion that they have some way to go yet. I'd bet that Google Tag Manager and some AWS services are integrated into more than 1/3.

[1] From https://backlinko.com/cloudflare-users
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teddyh 1362 days ago
What, “They’re not an empire, they only rule ⅓ of the Earth’s surface!”?

Or “Cloudflare cannot possibly be taking advantage of their market share, since they have competition!”?

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jraph 1362 days ago
Google Tag Manager can be down without affecting websites uptime and as a visitor I can block them. I do block them, by the way. So, it's quite central, but at least not really a point of failure.

AWS and Cloudflare, on the contrary… (and also Google products like fonts.googleapi.com, or probably anything under googleapi.com)

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