Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

Do free accounts require any kind of email validation such as retrieving and pasting in a code?

Agreed I think this is pretty solid especially since you get all the Cloudflare benefits like CDN from the get-go.

hn has turned into a reddit hate fest. It's getting hard to read non stop negativity and hate. I'm happy to see your positive comment.

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.