> You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.

I object to centralization and consolidation of power, how is this not both?

I'll duplicate my follow up question, from a sister thread.

If I actually start using the DDoS protection or other services... will cloudflare cut me off unless I pay? Will that charge be exorbitant? Does that behavior feel like extortion? Have they done that before?