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This sticks out to me:

> We also had issues in some regions, such as China, where Google's services are intermittently blocked. China alone accounts for 25 percent of all Internet users. Given that some subset of those could not access Cloudflare's customers if they triggered a CAPTCHA was always concerning to us.

They are explicitly saying that China's blackmailing of Google is working so well it even affects decisions on using Google products outside of China.

I'm not a Google fan and think this move is a great improvement for the web and user privacy, but that this was explicitly motivated by China's blackmailing tactics is terrifying.

And we can from this post even make another case that also doesn't paint a nice picture: Cloudflare does not care enough about 25% of internet users to move away from reCAPTCHA - until it affects their bottom line in a visible and immediate way.