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by pseudo0 1332 days ago
> Cloudflare almost had their business collapse until they took proactive action against one of their clients.

Do you have any proof of an actual business impact on Cloudflare? Some people were making noise on Twitter, but we all know how meaningless likes and retweets are. Something like a dozen people showed up to the in-person protest, which indicates that the anti-Cloudflare campaign was mostly slacktivism and astroturfing.

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I don't, because I ultimately don't think their cooperation with "the mob" changed much of anything. That being said, businesses live-and-die based on public perception. There obviously must have been some financial threat (a large customer pulling out, shareholder objection, what have you) to make them cave. Whether they're greedy or truly sympathetic to the queer community is for you to decide.