“Ow! My balls!”

Yes, exactly. It’s rural Tennessee. They don’t care about first amendment violations unless they’re personally affected by it.

I’m using my own LetsEncrypt certs for TLS with cloudflare free. I too wonder how I’m the product in this scenario.

I always assumed it was a loss leader play: the more selfhost type people are using cloudflare at home, the more likely they are to recommend and implement it at work, on a paid tier.

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More people would be moving there to support the strip mining operations.