CloudFlare is the internet’s de-facto gatekeeper nobody wanted, and a giant institutionalized MITM attack to perform privacy invasion on a massive scale.

Fuck CloudFlare and their business model ideas with a stiff wire brush.

I like that they are considering this problem. I really dont like what they have decided to focus on. Having ‘answer engines’ as the core with content creators filling in the gaps like some sort of task rabbit workers sounds horrible. I dont want gaps in human/AI knowledge filled by people who are doing it for money. I want people that actually care enough to organically create the content.

Funding the content we consume should be cheap considering how many people are there consuming it and how cheap it is these days to serve content.

The problem is real. There are many options, and likely no single optimal solution. Cloudflare isn’t going to solve it and monopolize that universe.

There is an excellent opportunity for coming up with a distributed/fedi, dynamic solution before centralized solutions lock things up for the next fifty years.

Good grief, there were more, what I’m going to politely refer to as “mistakes”, about what the internet was and is, and what is good for users in that article than I’ve seen in one place for quite some time.

I respect cloudflare for their technical ability to deliver on their stated business model, but that model is inherently terrible. What they’re talking about in the nonsense they posted is even worse than that though, as it seeks to effectively monetise every online interaction, with cloudflare no doubt taking a cut for fascilitating it, and bury everything they can’t monetise.

It’s rare that a article discussing a technical matter, howsoever loosely, gets me cross, but this one has me fuming!