Cloudflare User Experience, bane of my online experience

I am an Expat living in a country with a firewall, so often I have to use VPNs (What sane person doesn't use VPNs?). I see people commenting about how they love Cloudflare, and I am sitting here with it being the bane of my, also hoping for some online privacy, existence.

Many websites using Cloudflare services, including [cloudflare.com](http://cloudflare.com), block, filter, or have completely terrible loading times. I very often have to turn my VPN off to go to these websites, or, even worse, I simply cannot view the website because both the country and VPN (Proton VPN) are blocked.

Thoughts and advice are welcome.