What market share would they have without offering the free tier? Much lower than what they have now, and that would make for a more decentralised and resilient internet

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ITB a day ago | parent | next [-]

Do you remember how bad things were before CloudFlare? You’d get attacked constantly if you ran a large website.

	▲	pred_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		I remember Tor being significantly more usable, and not having random 3 second delays on websites.

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tick_tock_tick a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> and that would make for a more decentralised and resilient internet

The only people that say that haven't run a site on the open internet in the last decade plus. It's such an ignorant takes it's hard to take anything you say seriously.

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wrxd a day ago | parent [-]

I’m not advocating for having no protections at all. Without Cloudflare giving away protection for free it’s entirely possible that we would have multiple smaller provider offering protection at a fair price so maybe only a smaller fraction of the internet goes offline next time Cloudflare pushes a bad configuration

	▲	Moldoteck 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		fair price and europe sounds interesting... regardless it still means your competition will have it easier