Edit: With more information coming in, I don't think the current issue is specific to Cloudflare. FWIW I'm having zero issues in mid-US.
Small sites don't really need that decentralization, sure it's nice that it's easy but this isn't the problem.
The problem is that in aggregate you end up with an internet with a single point of failure.
And even if as it is now isn't a big problem, who's to say that one day it is a huge problem?
@dang or another mod, would be better to link to https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187... as this isn't a Cloudflare issue.
"The IP NOC with the assistance of the Operations Engineering team confirmed a routing issue to be preventing BGP sessions from establishing correctly. A configuration adjustment was deployed at a high level, and sessions began to re-establish with stability. As the change propagates through the affected devices, service affecting alarms continue to clear"
What you are experiencing today is the normal state of the nowadays web when you refuse to be tracked.
