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Clownflare Isn't Free and Its CEO Openly Boasted They'd Start Charging Everyone to Offset the Considerable Losses (It's a Trap, It's Just Bait)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 05, 2024

Clownflare has collapsed and it's still 1,437 MILLION dollars in debt as per its latest report (days old). With interest rates like today's, no company chooses debt "because it's cheap"...

The stock has collapsed, which means shareholders aren't seeing much potential for a financial turnaround.

Clownflare stock

The 'profits' of Clownflare: (nope, no profit)

Net loss/income of Cloudflare worldwide from 2016 to 2023 (per year)

Latest:

Cloudflare reports wider first-quarter operating loss, shares slide

Is Clownflare considered insolvent yet? Not yet?

Do you want such a company in complete control of your site, your certificates, and so much more? Remember: they will do anything to 'monetise' one day, once the lock-in is sufficiently tight. Clownflare is not a "public service" or some charity.

Clownflare meme: Clownflare loses tens of millions a year; Clownflare loses tens of millions per quarter; Clownflare loses hundreds of millions a year; Oh, God, I can see where this is heading...

Clownflare went to Wall Street to offload its losses to gullible people with some savings to waste away.

Clownflare went out of its way to block staff from seeing my tweets, so that's more or less how much Clownflare values free speech.

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