[jeroenhd]

Cloudflare is just one of many products blocking unwanted network traffic. They're the biggest, for sure, but hardly the only one. If Cloudflare disappeared tomorrow, another would pop up instantly.

The problem isn't Cloudflare, it's that the internet is filled with ill-willed bots, and those bots seem to have infected your network or your ISPs network as well.

If ISPs did a better job taking action against infected IoT crap and spam farms, you wouldn't need to click so many CAPTCHAs.

Without Cloudflare, you'd just see a page saying "blocked because of supicious network activity" or nothing at all or a redirect shock site if the site admin is feeling particularly spicy. If anything, Cloudflare CAPTCHAs are doing you a service by being a cheap and effective alternative to mass IP range blocks.