@7e00ff73 CloudFlare isn't a profitable company. Their bandwidth is paid for by investor money and has been for ages.

Eventually investors will stop (most likely now when the economy is going to hell) and they have to make money, and turn corrupt. which is why you should keep as far away from it as possible before it happens.

This is the same chain of events that recently happened to sites like Reddit 

 @1b4ca9e9 @7e00ff73 Or as several people have been thinking: It's state-funded. 

 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @7e00ff73 Afaik there's no proof of that.

But really wouldn't surprise me if many governments gave Cloudflare good deals on DC/IX space and connections in return for some under-the-table deals.

I mean the US has pretty much been proven to capture traffic from all their undersea cables (during the snowden leaks iirc) 

 @1b4ca9e9 @7e00ff73 I don't think there's a need for under-the-table deals, state-surveillance is USA is all too legal (see Cloud Act and Patriot Act).
But it provides a prime position, after all it means unencrypted traffic.