Cloudflair is what happens when a platonic idea of the internet clashes with market realities. All the questions posed are very important but most websites are run by businesses with motives about as pure as Cloudflair’s.
As for people… A programming club I attended is filled with people who run homelabs, use Linux and generally dislike anything corporate. The project to switch communication of discord is now more than a year old. I do feel sometimes that resistance against corporate internet is futile.
Cloudflare is what happens when the internet as a platonic idea fails to come up with a sensible answer to ddos attacks. When there's no pipe fat enough to take the traffic a moderate DDoS can bring to bear, you need means of filtering in a distributed fashion, and in way the internet is organised that takes connections and hardware which are essentially impossible for a small operation to muster.
As for people… A programming club I attended is filled with people who run homelabs, use Linux and generally dislike anything corporate. The project to switch communication of discord is now more than a year old. I do feel sometimes that resistance against corporate internet is futile.