Comment by Bran_son
3 years ago
> The broken thing is that anyone can send any unsolicited traffic anywhere, making Cloudflare a requirement for hosting a website.
If a Cloudflare-like service is a required part of internet infrastructure, then each ISP and hosting provider should offer their own, equivalent service. By law, if necessary, if the economics don't work out otherwise. Because having a single company be the arbiter and monitor of who may visit any website is, well, bad.
But they can't. The service only works because of Cloudflare's scale and view of large portions of internet traffic.