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It does exist, but its small and separate from the "conglomonet", if you will.
I mean... The Fediverse, for one!
Even we quite often use Cloud flare. Those who resisted at first often changed their mind after getting hit with bot scraping DNS attacks. It's not trivially easy to deploy alternatives.
True, but how many went with Anubis instead of Cloudflare?
One Big Tech company blasts small websites with nonconsensual AI data scraping, while another Big Tech company offers protection... as long as they can watch everybody interact with your site.
Mafia-esque.