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They've done this in previous outages and people didn't like it then, either.

Generally big companies don't talk smack about other big companies having internet-wide issues, unless those issues are directly caused by the other company.

For instance, when Google talked about Cloudbleed, which was when Cloudflare vomited millions of secrets all over Google's caching heirarchy and Google had to manually clean it up.

I think perhaps the Cloudflare people have gotten confused and think that means it's okay to talk about other people's stuff. Instead of interpreting it as it really is, which is that Cloudflare is the last company that should be criticizing everyone else, lest someone bring up their previous missteps.



Given that warp is a pretty major player in the VPN space and lots of their customers are likely to blame them for not being able to get to Facebook, I think having a detailed "wasn't us" on their blog that their sales engineers can point to is reasonable.


which is that Cloudflare is the last company that should be criticizing everyone else

There is no criticism of Facebook in our blog post.


I still remember Cloudflare's PR efforts to downplay Cloudbleed. A key reason why I meticulously avoid using any of their services.


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