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> Cloudflare is mostly used for anonymity and privacy, not for scale

I have never heard this before. Anonymity from what? From people knowing your Hetzner ip? I don't know what you're keeping private.

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I self-host my blog on a server in my home. Instead of opening a port to my home network, I'm using Cloudflare Tunnel to expose the blog to the internet.

That's not really anonymity or privacy in all likelihood, though. Your residential IP is already anonymous. Knowing it tells me nothing other than your general region. The benefit there is that you don't need to have a static IP.

And besides, Cloudflare Tunnel is distinct from (though it integrates with) the cdn product.

I would like to know why this comment seems to have been down voted. It's true AFAIK.

> Your residential IP is already anonymous

It certainly isn't.

In fact, IPv4 is the de-facto authorization and authentication system of the Internet. It's stupid but it is what it is.

Cloudflare is the "bitcoin mixer" for laundering IPv4's.

> From people knowing your Hetzner ip?

Yes. You don't really want people to know your IP address. It's like giving your phone number to spammers.

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