Thank you, I appreciate this.

My initial, instinctive response to your first comment was roughly "fuck you, why are you being an asshole when I was just trying to help you to get the joke?". That's a silly response, of course, and I would be a dumbass to take constructive criticism to be some sort of personal attack. I've found that when constructive criticism causes instinctive defensiveness in this way, it says more about the person feeling defensive than the person making the criticism.

In this case, I felt the way I did at first because I do want to resist Cloudflare dominance, but I didn't know how to do that (I could have searched online about it, and I think this was on my mental to-do list, but far enough down that I'd realistically not get round to it). I'm glad that you called me out on this, and helped me to be better equipped to act in accordance with my ethical values in future.