I'll throw myself into the fire here. I use Cloudflare. I host a couple small websites with them that I don't pay for. why? it's easy, it's free, it works very well with my stack and dev environment and for me it's faster than what I was previously using/hosting with.

I made the decision recently to allow the "product to speak for itself" as opposed to making my tech decisions based on a POS Dev or CEO that works for whatever company. I needed a VPN and email hosting along with PW management that I just didn't want to deal with myself anymore so I said fuck it and went with proton regardless of what others may feel about them. On one of my machines I needed a decent and fast to set up tiling window manager so I said fuck it and installed hyprland regardless of the opinions of the lead dev. a few other examples like that. I figured if I held every company to the same moral standards as myself then I'd never get anything done.

Call me a hypocrite and what have you, fine. but honestly at this point everyone has their hands dirty and if we looked into the people who built EVERYTHING we use we'd probably end up using nothing. So do a lot of people not like Cloudflare? yes. Are their opinions on the matter valid? also yes. But if it and other things currently work for me and provide what I need I'll keep using them until they stop working for me.