Basically DDOS booters use Cloudflare to protect their websites from competitors, since Cloudflare is one of the best. The same people Cloudflare is protecting (and claims to do so on an ethical neutrality basis) is furthering the need for Cloudflare to exist.
Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
by acdha on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:40PM
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Note that I’m not saying whether or not this is true, only that a comment which links to something like that will generally fare better than one which begs the question.
Basically DDOS booters use Cloudflare to protect their websites from competitors, since Cloudflare is one of the best. The same people Cloudflare is protecting (and claims to do so on an ethical neutrality basis) is furthering the need for Cloudflare to exist.