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An aside from the comment, but I don't appreciate the derisive tone of their first paragraph:

> a handful of elite tech companies decide to waste the time of literally billions of people with juvenile jokes that only they find funny.

I sort of agree, but it's not nice, and not necessary. It also isn't particularly classy to then go on to say "and we're so much better, because we do useful things".

(I do happen to find Cloudflare, as a company, so much better, and awesome things like 1.1.1.1 and warp make me really want to push my employer to use Cloudflare for all the things).




Absolutely, that part left a bitter taste in my mouth reading the rest of the article. Feels like they released this on April 1st just so they could make this claim, strange move.


Or because (in American calendars), today is 4/1, and the IP address for their DNS server is 1.1.1.1, or four ones.


I actually loved that intro. Check out Stackoverflow for a horrendous example of an April fools "joke" today.


Screenshot for people reading this outside of 4/1/2019:

https://i.imgur.com/zCNbOTl.png


I think they were just trying to be extremely clear right away that this announcement is not an April Fool's joke.




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