To be fair, Cloudflare is also the reason why most sites even have TLS at all, because it offered free certs (through letsencrypt I think?) in a fairly easy to set up way.

Certs used to be expensive, and had way more operational overhead and quirks (even setting up ACME/LE)

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estimator7292 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Absolutely not, no. That is all thanks to Let's Encrypt.

	▲	DoctorOW an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This was true before Let's Encrypt existed, they'd buy massive 500 domain wildcard SSL certs that free users would split.

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Tostino 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not going to give them credit for the work that Lets Encrypt did.