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by cmer 946 days ago
Off-topic: Tailscale seems like such a perfect acquisition target for Cloudflare. It seems like there's perfect product and culture alignment. Amirite?
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I don't think they want to be acquired and I'm not sure it's healthy for everything to get sucked into Cloudflare either.
Cloudflare tunnels/zero trust largely do the same thing as Tailscale. Yes there are some gaps but probably not acquisition worthy
As far as I know Cloudflare doesn't do any p2p/e2ee, which is a pretty fundamental difference
Hope not. CF is in the meantime too large to really care about “retail” that much.
What do you mean by “retail”? Because Cloudflare does plenty of products for smaller teams - I’d even say it’s a cornerstone of their strategy.
I sure hope you are not.
Not sure if serious. Tailscale is end to end encrypted.

Cloudflare is probably just this generation’s Crypto AG: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_rem...