I grew up in a country where the Internet was censored and I have been a Tor user since the days of the dangerous toggle button in Firefox. So it&#x27;s been like 7-8 years? I hope I can offer a counter argument.<p>This is not &quot;business&quot; as much as it is about CloudFlare centralizing the Internet around them. We should speak up against it and rightly so.<p>When I started using Tor, it was the only way I could access the free Internet. You mention VPN, VPNs may be popular but not everyone can pay for them or afford them or even has a credit card in many countries. With CloudFlare running on many websites, it has become impossible to read any content on them because the CAPTCHAs are impossible to solve or are a nuisance (who has figured out what a street sign is?). And while Tor gives users to access the internet freely for zero cost, CloudFlare is helping doing the opposite of that.<p>And please suggest what should an open network do about abuse and rather, why should they be the ones doing anything about it? Not to mention, what kind of abuse would reading an article constitute? I am not even logging in, just reading stuff has been made impossible due to CloudFlare.