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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by manigandham on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:03PM (#16725406)
What are the ethical concerns with Cloudflare?
Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by tedivm on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:23PM (#16725708)
* Cloudflare has a history of promising to open source projects only to not do so. For example, they built a system to shorten SSL certificate chains that they said they would open source but then didn't for over a year. When they finally did they admitted it was due to pressure from people on this site.

* Cloudflare got some initial fame by keeping Lulzsec up during a massive DDoS. That by itself wasn't bad, but afterwards they embraced a "bulletproof hosting" mindset that involved acting as a shield for malicious activity (specifically, people were abusing their network to host malware and drive by exploits). If you reported an account for pushing malware they'd block the single instance of malware (ie, example.com/malware/djfksdjf.jar) even if the original server was configured to serve it under any random name (example.com/malware/.jar). For awhile they were a huge source of infection for users.

Their CEO directly lied and accused a security company I worked for at the time of blocking their traffic to "suppress free speech", when what we were really trying to block were active drive by exploits. We sent a ton of evidence for this to them in advance- including PCAP files showing the exact network connection required. Instead of dealing with the malware they were hosting they started a PR campaign.

* After I criticized them before on this site several of their security team followed me on twitter for some reason. That's how I learned that they have a lot of "alt-right" type people on their team (or at least did at that time).

Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by judge2020 on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:25PM (#16725718)
Some people are against Cloudflare's vast internet dominance with their "free" CDN which proxies all content, but proxying content of a zone is no different from any of the other CDNs storing your content for you.
Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by manigandham on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:46PM (#16725800)
When did business success become such a problem? The basic CDN model is the same with all CDNs that are pull-first reverse proxies, but they clearly offer much better features for less cost which is why so many use them. There's nothing stopping other companies from doing the same but most are still nothing more than some nginx servers running in a few colos.