Man, that we even need Cloudflare these days is a reflection of the modern internet. You’ve been able you DDOS any site for decades. You’ve been able to crawl sites and overload them for the same. We didn’t need cloudflare back in the day though, even though the average user was more capable of doing such than the average user today, and even though we basically had no protection. I ran servers out of my house, and the last time I tried that I had thousands of intrusion attempts within a week. Web 2.0 turned the web into a gigantic scam by incentivizing anti social behavior. If someone hacked my website, it went down and people couldn’t look at my shitty blog. If someone hacks a modern site, they’re likely to get access to millions of peoples extremely granular personal data. Data that was captured for Web 2.0 in service of profit seeking.
