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raincoleyesterday at 6:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Really. I think HN hates Cloudflare with (quite unjustified if you ask me) searing passion.


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dakolliyesterday at 9:23 PM

In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contacted Unspam Technologies, asking, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" The DHS' email served as the impetus for Cloudflare, a technology company Prince co-founded with Holloway and fellow Harvard Business School graduate Michelle Zatlyn the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Prince#:~:text=In%2020...

They're literally a government surveillance program larping as a private company, many such cases.