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by charcircuit 1108 days ago
>assumes a company big enough to own a block

You don't have to be a big company to own a block. An ipv4 block is <$10k and the price is on a downtrend now that covid is over. It is risky as a site if you don't own your IP block because false abuse complaints can be sent to the ASN you are renting an IP from and can result in downtime. If you own the IP, the abuse reports for it go to you to handle.

>won't just drop non-Cloudflare traffic

Not all sites do this. Also they likely have other stuff running on the machines that are accessible without cloudflare.