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Doesn’t Cloudflare have every incentive to inflate the bandwidth of the attack they have successfully mitigated?

And yes I know that there are Cloudflare employees here so spare me with your pinky swears.

Then why implement email as a backend if email cannot actually be used as a backend?

I think any competent email provider will throttle or block you the first time you send a burst of messages.

Is that something that can be done?

> worse for everybody in exchange for making someone money

That’s not how the economy works.

If I install it on purpose to guarantee to other players that I am not cheating then it is not malware.