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Right now.
But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.
They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that's in the form of good publicity. Maybe they're hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.
They have existed for over a decade wtf are you on about. They're publicly traded and doing very well.
This is more nonsense in a thread full of nonsense.
That suggests they're less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand's reputation. Maybe they'll stay nice indefinitely.
Anyone providing services for a profit could pull a Unity at anytime. Still, I think you need more for the "slippery slope" argument.
They also have payed plans. It's actually nice of them to offer free plans for those in dire need. When your business critical site (eg. your small business shop) gets DDOSed and your hoster wants drastically more money for the traffic or will shut it down, both of which threatening your existance, cloudflare is a blessing.