definetly cloudflare is very harmful for the internet. It blocks crawlers. and impose captchas on every website.
Your arguments are somewhat crudely stated, but the impacts on users are what concern me. The Internet Is For Users. And this policy of blocking & obstructing users along the way is 100% my worst concern about CloudFlare. It's gross to the max.
I really like their serverless workers & storage offerings, a lot. They do so much right & have great easy use tech at many levels. But the catchpas also sometimes feel like a spreading dark spot on the internet, where society goes dark. It's the worst.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attest...
> "Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness"
Yeah no shit Cloudflare, YOU'RE THE REASON FOR IT.
And the solution is "use hardware keys and track everyone"
Cloudflare is not the reason for it - ridiculous amounts of bot traffic is. Bot traffic that is either malicious, resource consuming, or actively trying to bring your website down. CAPTCHAs are just the best tool we have to block them, and I don't believe it is completely fair to have website operators just put up with it for the sake of the users - it's a team effort. Let's solve the internet's actual problems so that we don't need things like Cloudflare to patch symptoms instead of causes.