I wish I could contribute more, but that's really all I know about them. I hope people with more useful information turn up!
While true, it doesn't say much one way or another about whether they're trustworthy or not.
For a company that exists to block ads, they sure do spend a fuckton on ads.
Gonna get deadly when the cops inevitably smash all the mirrors to make a point and scream "stop resisting!" while people are bleeding out from glass shards in their necks.
It can also mean if you're just an average Joe from some random country that is well-known for being the source of botnets or DDOS attacks, you're fucked out of luck on accessing half the internet because Cloudflare assumes you're part of the problem based on your source IP. Denied access because of someone else's wrongdoing seems like a really bad side-effect.
The short answer is: A bit of both, really.
The longer answer is pretty detailed and would include all the positive things they have done as well as the negative things they have done and the unintended consequences of having so much of the internet "behind" Cloudlfare.
It's sadly not a cut-and-dry situation, they've definitely added some cool, positive stuff to the world. They've also created a mangled mess for a lot of people where they're blocked from accessing certain parts of the web because Cloudflare is throwing down a false-positive and thinks they're a "bad actor."
I would say it's up to individual interpretation if they're doing more "breaking" or more "fixing." For some, far more is broken than fixed, and for others, it's the opposite.
I fall in the "more is fixed than broken" camp, but the "more is broken than fixed" camp have plenty of evidence to support their assertions. I am not really willing to ignore the downsides just because they don't affect me personally.
Worse, they're incentivized not to get you matched with anyone because once you're paired up, you're going to delete your account.
So it's all this data collection and lack of privacy for all of it to be used against you actually finding a partner, instead dedicated to making you lonely so you keep spending money on the app.
Housing is being made available.... far away from these people's hometowns.
Because the Swift fans apparently get priority on the local hotels while the people who actually fucking live in Scotland get shuffled the fuck around, some of them even being sent as far as England.
If she called for housing to be made available, it would mean upsetting a shitload of her fans who have already paid for hotel rooms. She isn't going to do that because that would mean she might get less money or less people at her show.
But that's the rub, these Swift fans don't somehow magically matter more than the local homeless just because they made a reservation six fucking months ago for an obscenely overpriced show.
No, Scotland should have automatically kicked out Swift attendees and made them go book a hotel a four fucking hour drive away. They certainly have the money (or are willing to piss away the money) to make that trip. Nooooo, uprooting homeless folks is waaaaay more important than making these chucklefucks spend a few more dimes on their shitty concert.
Take this civility politics and shove it. Millions have died waiting for civility to give a fuck. It's only "civil" when it's the rich kicking the poor to the curb and letting them die. When the poor fight back, they're "uncivil." Give me a fucking break with this shit.
I mean, to be fair, the same can be said for this, too. Skibidi Toilets actually has a coherent plot and characters if you're paying attention.
I promise you, if you came across Charlie the Unicorn for the first time as an adult, you would describe it similarly.
Could the things people do for the billionaire class get any more fucking insufferable and pathetic?
My dream would be for the homeless to organize and crash the show and completely fucking destroy it and turn it into anarchy.
Related: Some people prefer the Nicotine+ client for Soulseek. I personally prefer the classic one myself, but I've met many who prefer Nictone+.
Unpopular Opinion: This is why Microsoft were such assholes about making sure Windows 11 required a modern TPM and this is also why they are forcefully rolling out Bitlocker encryption turned on by default on all Windows 11 PCs.
Is Recall still a fucking stupid idea? Yes, resoundingly so. But they've half-ass considered the risks, it seems. The forceful rollout of Bitlocker is dumb and short-sighted in its own right, and it wouldn't make a person completely secure from outside attacks rooted in a Recall exposure.
https://global-tetrahedron.com/about
Hmm, I wonder why this shadowy organization sounds so... familiar?
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheonion.com+%22global+tetrahedron%22
I think it might be safe to file this one under "Good News." It sounds like everyone kept their jobs and the union is intact.
More importantly, Pride itself a reference to the Stonewall Riots, in which cops brutally assaulted LGBTQ+ citizens with great malice and the citizens fought back.
June 28th, 1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
The first Pride Parade was a year later, on June 27th, 1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade#First_pride_marches
The reason cops shouldn't be allowed at Pride is because cops violence against the LGBTQ+ community is why Pride fucking exists to begin with.