[chaoskitty]

I agree - we generally do the opposite of trusting marketing, but sometimes marketing is coincidentally correct.

Cloudflare wants to "protect" the world from the evils of DNS services other than themselves even knowing what geographical region people are in, so they strip all geographical information, even general, broad location, from DNS lookups. This has the effect of increasing latency for non-Cloudflare CDNs sometimes, since data will sometimes end up being served out of the wrong region.

I've wondered since I first heard about this if this is their way to enshittify CDN deliverability in general and make their latency look better in comparison.