But you are using someone else’s VM. You just don’t pay for it.

Not making Cloudflare more of a central point of failure for the internet? We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

I like how they have amazing great free services and people are upset so many people use it.

That's what we all said about various Google products many years ago, too.

Then you just switch to something else. What’s the problem? You’re not locked in.

> We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

We also hosted web pages before the average script kiddie could run tens of Gbps DDoS on sites for the lolz. And before ISPs used CGNAT making direct inbound connections impossible.

Public IPv4 address exhausted and NAT happened.

Even having IPv6 is not a proper solution because of laggy ISPs(currently reaching ~50%) and the even the ISPs who deploy, do not deploy it properly. (dynamic prefixes or inbound blocked IPv6)

Add to the mix that lot of people does not understand IPv6, internet became more centralized and will keep doing so for the foreseeable future.

It's a small cost of $4.50/month and allows me a lot more control. In regards to wireguard, that one VM I pay for is the central wireguard node for all sorts of devices that I use, allowing me to securely access home services when I'm not at home. There are services you don't want to expose directly via a Cloudfare Tunnel.