| That's a lot of false logic and implicit assumptions there buddy. Perhaps you want to take another go, only this time don't push a false narrative? It was possible to reach sites without cloudflare before and view the content. Now its primarily being used as a stopgap to block and de-anonymize people.
The website doesn't need to determine if you are good or bad. They simply need to manage their resources, and send the response to requests. That is if they are actually in the business of providing something to someone like content or something else. Otherwise the business they are really talking about is data brokering and surveilling without really disclosing it, and that's another discussion completely. Most of the traffic on the internet isn't junk, somewhere about 30% is protocol overhead, some small percentage is discarded during path and routing, and a large percent is the data people ask for. There are tactics you can use as a website owner that target bad actors without blocking en-masse. Server side checks that characterize specific actors that are not related to IP or ASN. Those can then be easily targeted, and its not hard to set that kind of response up as an automated response. |