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cloudflare is definitely one of those companies that is in most people's blind spot. no one ever asks how a company that has astronomical operational costs is able to thrive with free services which themselves break encryption of online communication...it's totally a tin foil hat time, but nobody cares as long as they get their free sh**

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I suspect a lot of people ask that, because a while ago they wrote a blog post explaining why having a large free tier is important to their business model: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/

They probably have a fat pipe straight to NSA's datacenter in Utah, with data flowing out and money flowing in.

Either this, or the other big cloud providers have astronomical margins. One could look at the financial reports of this companies to find out...

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