@y3mz It's... complicated to track. I *suspect* that much of the Cloudflare skepticism today can be traced back to my article indirectly, based on how people talk about it, but I don't have concrete evidence for this.

For the VPN gist it's much clearer; that gets shared a lot directly. It does also seem to have influenced a lot of later articles and videos on the topic, to some degree.

Overall, I'm fairly happy with both; it took a while (much longer than I'd have liked for Cloudflare in particular), but the vibe in the 'public debate' has noticeably shifted from "look how cool this is" to "ehhh welll... I dunno".