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Nowadays it feels like the kind of thing CloudFlare would launch as it’s right up their alley.

And seems appropriate if FastMail is having DDoS issues.

History really does repeat itself. It won't be long before Cloudflare provides email, a search engine, cloud hosting, DNS, etc. and before you know it, we have another Google!

I would much prefer multiple smaller companies that do one thing well, than a monolith that, even assuming they did everything well, has complete control over our digital lives.

Cloudflare is not an ad company, Google is.

I'm not a fan of Cloudflare increasing centralization, but I'd take a Google-sized Cloudflare and Cloudflare-sized Google over our curre t situation any day.

CloudFlare is not an ad company, yet.

CloudFlare doesn't need to be an ad company, they have plenty of paying customers.

With great control of the internet comes great advertising revenue.

They could just be an ISP. They can take money, provide services, and be regulated like a utility.

In the United States, ISPs have had the right to sell your private browsing history since 2017, as long as they anonymized your personal data.

they did announce free forwarding:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

https://www.cloudflare.com/email-forwarding-waitlist-sign-up...

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