The CDN can't give you content you're asking for without knowing which content you're asking for.
This improvement prevents your ISP and the government from reading your packets to get that same information.
I'm all for being wary of large-scale consolidation, but I feel like these lazy gripes aren't assessing the pros and cons dispassionately.
I think these are important issues and worth talking about.
Companies aren't binary good or bad. They go through a lifecycle. Today's young and scrappy startup fighting for the people and the CEO making house calls is tomorrow's big tech with AI chat support.
It's worth noting where a company is in its lifecycle, and what the world is likely to look like if it continues to grow.
How do we know that? Who else benefits from most of them?
They eventually found out that the third party provider was in fact the Australian Federal Police, reading all their messages in clear and in real time.
The government only needs to compel a corporation if that corporation has an adversarial relationship with them.
We have tried the centralized model pushed by Cloudflare before, it was called the Minitel.
Maybe some PIR protocol can also eventually change this (if the users and Cloudflare don't mind the computational and network overhead!).