[noir_lord]

Rent seeking probably.

Cloudflare sits in the middle of a vast amount of web traffic now, offering easy global payments and skimming off the top of that is going to be very profitable potentially.

I don't trust Cloudflare, the larger they get the bigger the abuse potential becomes.

[deadbabe]

But of all the players, Cloudflare is the best one for this kind of thing.

[rozenmd]

Curious: how do you feel about AWS, Azure, GCP?

[willtemperley]

CF: No criminal convictions I know about. No reason to distrust yet. Most controversies seem to be about providing services to political organisations.

GCP: Earth Engine is quite good, but Google have multiple criminal convictions. As a repeat offender they should be avoided at all costs. They are just so exceptionally good at manipulating people, markets and academia it's genuinely terrifying.

Azure: Microsoft still don't take security seriously. They're just a bit bumbly, not really smart enough to be as terrifying as Google.

AWS: Pretty useful, annoying to use, distrust because I can't bear Amazon's use of dark patterns in consumer products.

[noir_lord]

Same way I do about any large corporation, I don't trust them.

[octo888]

You work for Cloudflare, so is your comment more a "we're no different" statement than genuine curiosity about their opinion?

[rozenmd]

Genuinely curious.

[thrown-0825-1]

You mean Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet?