[nickysielicki]

So what? I should hate them for that? Cloudflare is really good at what it does. Nobody has to use cloudflare, but people who know what they’re doing choose cloudflare because the service they provide is worth the minuscule price they charge and it solves the massive abuse and performance problems that otherwise plague the internet.

Bing/msn.com failed to displace Google because Google was simply better, not because Google played dirty.

[jrm4]

Whenever anyone says "Oh so I should hate company X" you know you're in for a bad, stilted argument that's going to defend some very narrowly defined thing.

Companies, by their nature, grow and take over things for the purposes of making money - tech companies moreso. We have seen companies overstep in the past.

Please don't stifle reasonable concerns with this sort of inflammatory rhetoric.

[nickysielicki]

There's nothing reasonable about your concern. My original reply two levels up explains why: they have competitors and the service they provide is highly fungible.

[lapcat]

> So what? I should hate them for that?

Where did I mention hate? I don't care what emotions you feel or don't feel. The problem is the concentration of power in one company. That has nothing to do with emotion.

> Bing/msn.com failed to displace Google because Google was simply better, not because Google played dirty.

I don't think the courts agree with you about Google playing dirty. In any case, monopolies are inherently dangerous.

[nickysielicki]

> Where did I mention hate?

Substitute whatever adjective you want. You're spreading FUD about the cloudflare boogeyman while ignoring the fact that they have well funded competitors and have no technical mechanism whereby they could lock anyone into their so-called reverse proxy monopoly.