Fastmail is having problems again

Re:Fastmail is having problems again by Thorentis on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:05PM (#28963836)

History really does repeat itself. It won't be long before Cloudflare provides email, a search engine, cloud hosting, DNS, etc. and before you know it, we have another Google!

I would much prefer multiple smaller companies that do one thing well, than a monolith that, even assuming they did everything well, has complete control over our digital lives.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by loriverkutya on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:20PM (#28963969)

Cloudflare is not an ad company, Google is.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by Shared404 on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:50PM (#28964237)

I'm not a fan of Cloudflare increasing centralization, but I'd take a Google-sized Cloudflare and Cloudflare-sized Google over our curre t situation any day.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by tbyehl on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:56PM (#28964282)

CloudFlare is not an ad company, yet.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by donarb on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:06PM (#28964358)

CloudFlare doesn't need to be an ad company, they have plenty of paying customers.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by blitzar on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:24PM (#28964458)

With great control of the internet comes great advertising revenue.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by true_religion on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:44PM (#28964886)

They could just be an ISP. They can take money, provide services, and be regulated like a utility.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by blitzar on Saturday October 23, 2021 @06:57AM (#28967292)

In the United States, ISPs have had the right to sell your private browsing history since 2017, as long as they anonymized your personal data.

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