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To me, this reeks just a little bit about a symptom, rather than the cause. Which is, why do people use CloudFlare?

People don't pay for things with no benefit. The internet doesn't have a built-in CDN system. The internet's not very good at blocking bot traffic or DDoS attacks. The internet's not very good at remembering things when servers go down. And so on. There are, of course, many attempts to fix these shortcomings (IPFS?), but if it wasn't Cloudflare, it would be Akamai. If it wasn't Akamai, it'd be some other company, because you can't convince people anymore to just forgo Cloudflare's benefits for ideological purity.

Instead of ranting at Cloudflare, we should be looking into how to replace Cloudflare with open standards and systems. Which is much harder than just ranting in a blog post against the symptoms of a damaged internet.