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> blocks the internet completely decimating all necessary services

Not really how it works in practice here, some Cloudflare IPs are unavailable for a few hours, everything mostly keeps working as it always is.

[HDBaseT]

It's only Cloudflare IPs, its only the most popular reverse proxy and CDN provider on the internet. Only a mere 20%+ of internet traffic traverses via Cloudflare.

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some Cloudflare IPs, not every IP, nor does 20% of what you typically do on the internet go away during these few hours.

[lionkor]

Those companies chose to accept cloudflare downtime and blocking as their own downtime.