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by gpi 63 days ago
Unfortunate situation. Also, what is cloudflare exactly? They seemed to have diversified a tad much.
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> what is cloudflare exactly?

Man-in-the-middle and gatekeeper of (large parts of) the web.

It's getting harder and harder to participate online without being subject to their surveillance and/or approval.

That's a good way to put it.
Cloudflare is, believe it or not, the owner of several IP blocked by Telefonica in Spain durong football matches. Soon to be tennis, basket, too.
Just a cloud dev infrastructure provider like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.