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It is a business decision for them. If they kick the booters off, they will DDoS each other to death and no one will be able to use the booters anymore.

You may not agree, but financially makes sense for them. They need the booters to be alive to sell their service.

-->not saying I agree at all with that mindset

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> They need the booters to be alive to sell their service.

Well, I think this blog post clearly demonstrate that people are willing to pay for DDoS protection even without any attacks. This is pretty much a conspiracy theory way of thinking.

But paying customers of Cloudflare think otherwise.

Did you run any study to claim you know why are they buying those services? Security is not a one time purchase when someone is threatening you.

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