Lots of people use CloudFlare purely as a registar and DNS hoster because they sell domains at cost. Domains are quite expensive already for what they are. This is enough to trigger certificate issuance on your behalf. You don't have to use any add-on features. Maybe even just registering a domain is enough, I'm not sure. I certainly didn't "give them" any certificates, I don't have A/AAAA/CNAME records on several of my domains, and never enabled proxying traffic through the rest of them. The certs have been issued regardless.I don't see this as a conspiracy theory, though. They want to sell you the whole package and don't want to support freeloaders like me who are only there for the "cheap" domains. That's reasonable, if unfortunate.
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