Comment by palata

> makes me think it's just kneejerk "cloudflare = bad".

I mean, sure. There is that against BigTech all the time, and I understand where it comes from.

What I don't get is that... I don't know, I feel like it should be possible to be against the fact that there are monopolies and criticise them on the one hand, and on the other hand to actually have technical discussions about technical solutions. Here it feels like many comments denigrate Cloudflare without even understanding what the OHTTP gateway does.

For example:

- "Google sucks, they just optimise for profit like all BigTech and that makes it worse for everybody" -> criticises a monopolist entity, all good. No need to be constructive here, it's just sharing a feeling.

- "Android's security model is soooo bad because Android is developed by Google, you should use Linux on mobile it's a lot more secure" -> criticises a technical solution (Android's security model) in a completely uninformed manner, not good.

In other words, BigTech companies "suck" by being BigTech companies, but they do hire brilliant engineers and develop nice stuff (when they don't develop technology to screw us, that is), and I think it would be worth acknowledging that. Cloudflare does contribute a lot of cool stuff open source. One doesn't have to like that Cloudflare is as big as it is, but that's not a reason to say that what they open source is bad software.