Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet and what has not.
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!
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!