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While I honestly and wholeheartedly respect what you are doing with Cloudflare, and also yourself as a person and an engineer, and having been using Cloudflare and advocating for Cloudflare myself since 2011., I must correct you that given the recent scandals with "mandatory optional upgrades" and "waiving the abuse away - if you pay" (see the relatively recent post on robindev substack), nothing Cloudflare promises can be considered free and without shakedown. The reputation of the company has finally been tarnished. I'm truly sorry to have seen it happen.


Almost all of those "scandals" have been a scummy site in some way that was unsurprising to people who have worked abuse in the space.


I'm not sure selectively enforced shakedowns instill a lot of confidence either




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