I agree on the Cloudflare issue, but this is a client side feature, so I don’t think ti’s comparable. You can use Firefox or Safari or Brave or whatever else if you don’t want this feature. Google had a data saver built into Chrome years ago that also routed every image request through Google, and I don’t think more than a small percentage ever turned that on.
As far as I can tell, the setup of this service won’t involve any caching, it’s just a pseudo VPN like the one Apple built, only without the privacy protecting you from Apple itself.
The diference is that Google says they want to make this feature the default - not something you’ve to enable like the image proxy.
the setup of this service won’t involve any caching, it’s just a pseudo VPN l
Yes right now it doesn’t but the path is obvious. Chrome has a 63% market-share, if you get half of the Internet using this service by default you can be sure that ISPs will even offer datacenter space to Cloudflare as long as they maintain the hardware and cache of the Internet inside their networks. After all they already have similar agreements like this for their CDN.
I agree on the Cloudflare issue, but this is a client side feature, so I don’t think ti’s comparable. You can use Firefox or Safari or Brave or whatever else if you don’t want this feature. Google had a data saver built into Chrome years ago that also routed every image request through Google, and I don’t think more than a small percentage ever turned that on.
As far as I can tell, the setup of this service won’t involve any caching, it’s just a pseudo VPN like the one Apple built, only without the privacy protecting you from Apple itself.
The diference is that Google says they want to make this feature the default - not something you’ve to enable like the image proxy.
Yes right now it doesn’t but the path is obvious. Chrome has a 63% market-share, if you get half of the Internet using this service by default you can be sure that ISPs will even offer datacenter space to Cloudflare as long as they maintain the hardware and cache of the Internet inside their networks. After all they already have similar agreements like this for their CDN.