I don’t think there is a valid reason to this. I mean they offer several other services as well. But I think many, many people use it instead of other web application firewalls, because Cloudflare are good snake-oil salesmen and everyone else is using it too, so it must be valid. And there is a free tier, and nobody cares giving away their and their customer’s private data and introducing one big single point of failure to the internet…
I don’t think there is a valid reason to this. I mean they offer several other services as well. But I think many, many people use it instead of other web application firewalls, because Cloudflare are good snake-oil salesmen and everyone else is using it too, so it must be valid. And there is a free tier, and nobody cares giving away their and their customer’s private data and introducing one big single point of failure to the internet…
Thank you for additional context. I did hear about that fucking free tier… Its like that guy in prison… Shit ain’t free!