[rpgwaiter]

Why go through that effort when they could just lie about site usage and say you incurred a bunch of traffic? Or make fake site "hits" from localhost?

It's really the trade-off for using any cloud host. You are implicitly trusting the host, their monitoring tools, their billing system, and their customer support when things go wrong

[Cthulhu_]

Both of those could be exposed via an audit or a whistleblower, either of which would destroy the company and its reputation overnight.

[evilduck]

As opposed to just negligently allowing it from the outside?

Netlify still looks terrible here.