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When the Web Collapses

What happens when a few companies have a stranglehold on the internet

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Rob Archer
Nov 18, 2025
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Here we go again. Another massive internet outage.

This time, Cloudflare—one of the biggest networks on Earth—fell over. And when it did, the ripple took out huge chunks of the web. Sites, apps, services, everything. For hundreds of millions of people, the internet simply… stopped.

And once again, we’re reminded of something we keep pretending isn’t true:…

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