Yeah, no. 1. The internet worked fine before Cloudflare, and there was no mass blocking of IPs before that. 2. Websites are commerce based. Their operating co

Yeah, no. 1. The internet worked fine before Cloudflare, and there was no mass blocking of IPs before that. 2. Websites are commerce based. Their operating costs are already far covered by their income (ads or a service) 3. Cloudflare is a CDN so customers feel no impact from excessive traffic unless their site - which 99% of the time is pure static content - is poorly designed 4. Cloudflare could just choose to throttle the highest traffic IPs to one particular site (the one being attacked) during an actual attack, which is what DDoS mitigation companies do. Instead they just block every shared IP address forever (or force them to solve captchas, which after 8 years of bad implementation, moved from from wasting tons of the users time to being just barely acceptable) Don't give me any further lectures on how businesses work until you understand how technology works.