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Comment by tuxone | Hacker News Reader

> That many VPN companies pretend to keep your data private and then sell it to help target you with advertising is, in a word, disgusting. That is not Cloudflare’s business model and it never will be.

When I read something like that I feel protected and cared about. Now, can someone explain me why this should be in any form different from the WhatsApp case?

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Let's not forget how Cloudflare got started...

The Department of Homeland Security offered to buy the data from Project Honeypot (run by Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway), and they sold it to them for $20,000. Michele Zatlyn (a classmate of Prince) said "if they'll pay for it, other people will pay for it."

"And so the idea for Cloudflare was born, with Ms Zatlyn as its third co-founder." [with Prince and Holloway]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016

And let's not forget who Cloudflare's customers are today: companies that pay us to make their web servers and API servers faster, more reliable and more secure.

Well, one of the big differences is the fact that you don't have to provide any information to use 1.1.1.1 or Warp, just download the app. That means that at worst, the only personally-identifiable information they get is your IP and usage patterns.

If CloudFlare is bought by Comcast and they start doing Bad Guy Things™, then your exposed surface area is rather low.

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