Ironically, their abuse report does validate the domain being used to route traffic is a registered customer domain. But the abuse report and even Slack pings have yet to affect the traffic. It’s incredibly frustrating because you’d expect a company like Cloudflare, which positions itself as a defender against DDoS and similar threats, to take action much more quickly when they’re part of the problem.
And ok, I'll give some leeway in those numbers looking at the map on the linked page, 35% or so of source traffic is clustered over five countries so that distribution skews and some pops around those source countries are going to be hit harder than others. Still, maybe add an order of magnitude and I'll be a little less dismissive.
This is on the level of BrandonM's famous comment on Dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
And ooh, ooh, I can flippantly dismiss a comment by calling back to that infamous comment as well! [0] You're actually posting this as a former VP? Geez dude, lighten up, they're not paying you anymore.
It’s called marketing.
They have a product. This is marketing for that product. The incentive is to make money. It's very clear imo.
I presume that fora exist for players to discuss blue-team strategy, and that decisions are nuanced and detailed. If so, there's a lot of leeway to pursue a hidden agenda.
I'm not so concerned about what their doing now. It's about in a few years, when stock isn't as strong and MBAs are parachuted in to perk up the bottom line.
