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Absolute nonsense, people claiming that on here are usually hiding their deep political biases and as liberal lefties dont like it when someone in their space calls a spade a spade, especially someone with a lot more reach and respect. Slightly different playbook than calling everything you disagree with racist. Yawn spells are spent. This is how they attack Bob now because they realize being a leftie is ridiculous and this “im a centralist” crap carries no weight, so they hide that and try to attack him on his contributions to software engineering.

It's mainly because nearly all VPN providers all use the same shady providers - M247, xtom, fdc, datapacket etc.. Most CDN setups will "challenge" those ASNs.

People think Mullvad is special but it's same shit as all the others in most cities/markets, I wish they would use some of their big ad money spend to deleverage from these typical dodgy scam hosting ASNs.

In many ways yes, but there are pushes in the other direction, Cloudflare for many years tried to shame AWS regarding egress fees, even went as far as to establish a bandwidth alliance with the poorer hyperscalers, loads of press etc.. For containers they are basically adopting the same fees though.