That's a fairly good argument IMO. Today's Cloudflare does not sell data. Tomorrow's, or our children's generation's, could.

As you say, this could become a monopoly and it's cool to see a popular website standing up for a future where littler guys can still make it. It's not clear to me that's the precise argument he's made so I'm just guessing.

When did HN get these new awesome nav buttons? Root, next, ... amazing!