Comment by mschuster91
1 year ago
> However, any reasonably competent person can see that recentralization of the Internet is a Bad Thing™, and that this is precisely what Cloudflare wants.
It's an inevitable outcome, as long as there is nothing done against the big threat actors: government-run APTs from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, government-tolerated scammers (India, Turkey), rogue actors in our governments' security services (e.g. Pegasus), ordinary criminals mass-hacking vulnerable devices and selling access to them to be abused for DDoS'ing for less than the cost of a coffee at Starbucks... it's a wild west, and people are hiding themselves behind the largest giants they can find: Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS, Azure and GCP.
You're throwing unrelated facts at the statement. Recentralization has absolutely nothing to do with being protected from DDoS or from other threats. Now, DDoS (and other kinds of) protection can be done by recentralization, but that's just one possible way.
Saying it's inevitable makes you seem like a Cloudflare apologist, which unfortunately we see way too often here on ycombinator. Has anyone refuted my suggestion that Cloudflare is knowingly evil? No. Have they downvoted because my information is incorrect? Also, no, or if they think I'm incorrect, they haven't bothered pointing out how.
People want to like the things they choose, and this, unfortunately, is where Cloudflare is cleverer than other large, evil companies.