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But everyone else is
then I guess they don't value us as much as they should and need to be reminded of their place under the consumers boot.
I mean the criticism against Cloudflare is 100% valid. Having a single service be the single point of failure for half the web, not to mention that they can read the contents of every single request they proxy, is a terrible joke.
But the service they provide is real. A small business/service just doesn't have the capabilities to handle a DDoS attack. And every minute their site is down means lost customers/users.
That's good in theory, but a site behind Cloudflare won't necessarily notice that a legitimate user got blocked. If you want them to care, you'll have to find a way to contact them. For more impact, tell them which competitor you spent money with instead.
That’s a good bit of small business which is already pretty aware of the boot they are under.
We(i.e. people that care about this) are the tiniest of online minorities, we have no one under our boots whatsoever.