I know what cloudflare does, the former being intentional and the latter not being true unless you set up one of their app things. Unless you're talking about their tracking cookie as well. The caching was a pretty big reason of going with them in the first place since it reduces bandwidth usage on my part, but with proper manual caching rules it only ends adds to page load times. As for IP address cloaking, I have to expose it anyway for stuff like the proxy script and chat and on top of that IP addresses are public information and all this obsessive hiding of them is ridiculous although good when exposing unnecessary, for hosting a service or communicating directly it's necessary.
My move away from cloudflare was primarily fueled by my desire to get away from mass platforms and the creepy amount of power they have, ideally I want to host my DNS myself someday as well but you're required to have at least two servers for the records to be taken seriously so that's far off.
Am I tinfoil hatting? Yes. Am I gonna stop? No.
