Asking before benchmarking seems to be a sure way to poison your results. Who's to say that the performance of the services won't coincidentally perform better

Asking before benchmarking seems to be a sure way to poison your results. Who's to say that the performance of the services won't coincidentally perform better after you've given your request to test? I am sure they might mention some legalese of "avoiding putting arduous strain on the services which may cause disruption to our other users" as a justification, but that PR speak won't fly with me since there is a separate section that already references that. I say this as a big fan of Cloudflare and I am sure they don't need to use such underhanded tactics to make their services look good.