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cloudfare bad (lemmy.ml)
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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 140 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah this post is nearly upsettingly ignorant.

Cloudflare is just about the only big internet company out there objectively doing good things for the Internet.

[–] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This seems like saying road construction makes driving objectively worse or security guards make a stadium venue objectively worse.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BACK IN MY DAY WE BROUGHT RIFLES TO GAME DAY TO TAUNT THE PLAYERS

[–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe their point is just privatisation or something.

For example a dns provider like cloudfare just could artificially make latency costs for servers that don't agree with something cloudfare does bigger, which would result in them being less likely to be displayed in a search result because a search engine would have IP adresses faster from other servers. This obviously depends on if a search engine makes dns requests or just provides hostnames for the end user.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And then you could change your 1.1.1.1 to 8.8.8.8 and be free 🫢

[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago

using google is not what i’d call free

[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Maybe not 8.8.8.8. More like 9.9.9.9.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You can set up a caching dns server on a pi at home with very little effort.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Right now.

But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.

They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that's in the form of good publicity. Maybe they're hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They have existed for over a decade wtf are you on about. They're publicly traded and doing very well.

This is more nonsense in a thread full of nonsense.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That suggests they're less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand's reputation. Maybe they'll stay nice indefinitely.

[–] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone providing services for a profit could pull a Unity at anytime. Still, I think you need more for the "slippery slope" argument.