CloudFlare is usually there to mitigate bots attacking. Without which, the site wouldn't be available to view in the first place.
CloudFlare is merely the symptom of a greater set of problems, which it attempts to mitigate.
If you want to be angry about something, be angry that bruteforce attacks are common, guzzle resources and usually yield zero legal repercussions in most cases.
Personally, I have no problem with CloudFlare's bot protection. My problem is with CloudFlare's lack of diagnostics and community involvement to resolve/explain false positives. I have no idea what obscure default setting to change in Firefox to make it work.
Perhaps. Ask your government about it if you genuinely don't think the alternative is going to be far worse. People demand x solutions for y technologies like crypto or AI. Demand solutions for the problem.
The centralized solution is going to be a government-owned/controlled MITM service like CloudFlare. No doubt with actual ID for verification.
I don't see the decentralized solution happening any time soon.
Massive attacks existed long before CloudFlare ever did. If you're implying there's a conspiracy that CloudFlare is attacking others directly or indirectly to sell their solutions, I'd be extremely careful as that's defamatory and almost certainly false.
Furthermore, most CloudFlare users only use the free plan and thus cost CloudFlare money. Isn't that curious?
CloudFlare is merely the symptom of a greater set of problems, which it attempts to mitigate.
If you want to be angry about something, be angry that bruteforce attacks are common, guzzle resources and usually yield zero legal repercussions in most cases.