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Pure rent seeking. It’s not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.

You see decline. What I see is that a remarkable number of users have remained.

It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)

Cloudflare: What am I? Chopped liver?

I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.