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> Cloudflare has become much worse over the last 3 years due to increased adoption and default deployments by government services like congress.gov and institutions like science.org.

> These websites have been effectively blocked for millions of people in a multi-year on-going denial of service by cloudflare.

This is a great way to frame the issue. This is a DoS. But, it is a DoS against the client. And, the operators of sites that choose to front with cloudflare et al, given the choice of DoS against their servers or flipping the bird to a portion of their users, have chosen to make their own lives easier.

It is not just Cloudflare, though. My credit union uses Akamai who for a period of several months would terminate my connection during the TLS handshake, if I tried to connect from a connection tethered to my phone (cloudflare hates tethering/CGNAT too; cloudflare kept me from accessing my health dept's website during the pandemic from a tethered connection [my only Internet access at home]).