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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.