Summary: Bill Gates never really changed; he merely created a reputation-laundering scam to distract from his appalling behaviour (which later extended to reputation-laundering work on behalf of the biggest child traffickers)
If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company