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  • Essentially, their entire schtick is being a middleman. By sitting between the server you want to visit, they can do helpful things like DDOS protection, being a CDN (basically store website assets closer to you), managing HTTPS for you and providing access to your website over IPv6 even if your server doesn’t have it.

    By nature of that though, their position is quite sensitive since it has become a service that a good chunk of the Internet goes through. That causes concerns about centralization and pisses in a lot of people’s cereals politically.



  • It’s the same thing with different presentation, I highly doubt Valve is not aware of it, quite the opposite.

    It’s something that requires a lot of technical prowess to fix (especially to not disappoint the community now). I don’t blame Valve employees with not wanting to work with it, especially with TF2 code probably counting as legacy nowadays.

    In all fairness, Linux got 64 bit and Vulkan so maybe there’s still some people interested but their damage control for bot chat spam (read, disabling chat for free to play) got flamed so that’s not confidence inspiring.