@crashglasshouses @joepie91 @thufie They pitch it as "DDoS protection", and to be fair, DDoSes can be pretty huge
but on the other paw, fuck that.
@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie That's the thing though, Cloudflare has been consistently a) overexaggerating the likelihood of getting hit by a DDoS (it's not actually that likely, even today), and b) failing to mention that there are plenty of non-MITM high-capacity DDoS mitigation providers that existed long before Cloudflare did.
Basically, they used fear marketing to convince people you can't live on the web without their services.
