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by acdha
264 days ago
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Google’s monopoly is dangerous because they linked success in search to dominance in other areas, and especially the most popular web browser. I wouldn’t recommend trusting any large company but so far Cloudflare doesn’t appear to be pulling a Google because they sell directly rather than to third parties. Google never charged for search so they ended up doing a reverse acquisition into DoubleClick to get advertisers to pay for the searches we do. Cloudflare does have a free tier but their paid services are decidedly not free and since they have serious competition in the CDN business, zero-trust, etc. they have the direct incentive not to screw their customers which Google lacked. I’d get worried if that ever changes. |
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That's precisely what's happening here: Cloudflare is leveraging its CDN dominance to become a kind of payment processor for the internet.
> they have serious competition in the CDN business
Do they? I just said they have 80% market share.
> they have the direct incentive not to screw their customers which Google lacked
Google Search is free service for users but a paid service for advertisers. The advertisers are Google's customers. Theoretically, Google has an incentive not to screw its customers, but practically they can, because of their search monopoly.