[immibis]

You can get paid a few dollars (not many) to let them use your connection. I would like Cloudflare's business model (blocking datacenter IPs) to be worthless, so I do it. Haven't tried a withdrawal yet so it could well be a scam. This is not illegal (unless it's a scam).

[VBprogrammer]

If someone hasn't written a blog titled "Should we be worried about Cloudflare?" yet, I think it would be a good subject to explore. I find the idea that they could decide one day to ban you from all of their network pretty worrying. And if they did, how much fingerprinting are they doing and would the bad extend far beyond just a random IP address.

[nix0n]

> This is not illegal

Depends on what they're doing from your connection.

[immibis]

Strict liability by IP address is not the norm, not even in Germany any more. It's not illegal to have a botnet infect your computer either. Since they promise not to use your connection for illegal things, it's their fault if they break that.

[pjc50]

This is one of those "ACAB" things where you might reasonably dislike Cloudflare but a world without them or an equivalent will evolve worse solutions to the same problems, which you will like even less.