@ippiki_ookami: They will if you modify your hosts file so that "static1.e621.net" resolves to "104.26.5.231" or "104.26.4.231"

KynikossDragonn said:
They will if you modify your hosts file so that "static1.e621.net" resolves to "104.26.5.231" or "104.26.4.231"

or possibly 104.161.43.26
i.e. change it to whatever one is not the default you get from DNS queries

though there's probably some people who can't get a favourable route regardless of whether they go through cloudflare or to the main server