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_deftoday at 7:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

If I wouldn't know it better I'd sometimes think some of the big tech shops are just fronts for centralizing the net.


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Bendertoday at 8:50 PM

I don't know what would give anyone that idea. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY

LoganDarktoday at 7:54 PM

Cloudflare is doing this already. Once they had enough monopoly power, they started a program to block all bots that don't undergo invasive KYC procedures. Eventually, they might become a KYC broker for regular browser users too. The free internet is over.

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cryo32today at 9:22 PM

That's exactly what they are.

And they can fuck off.