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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by mrweasel on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:47PM (#45375244)
I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization. This isn't the fault of CloudFlare, they are just exploiting a business opportunity and as you say: At least they're not selling ads.

It is a legitimate business, from my perspective. I'd just wish we weren't in a situation where CloudFlare isn't exactly struggling to sell their services.

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by motorest on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:00PM (#45375496)
> I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization.

I'm perplexed by this sort of comment. Cloudflare doesn't even feature in the top 10 of cloud provider market share, and the number 8 spot already reports 2%. And here you are, complaining about Cloudflare and centralization.

Furthermore, AWS is by far the biggest cloud provider, reporting around 30% market share, and I don't see AWS being referred as a concern.

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by mrweasel on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:08PM (#45375619)
20% of websites uses CloudFlare(1, 2), even companies that use AWS, GCP and Azure have their services behind CloudFlare.

1) https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/cloudflare_2024_revie...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

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