XPost: alt.windows7.general, alt.computer.workshop   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/12/28 21:54:24, pothead wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-28, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-24 06:09, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>> When going to certain websites, I always get the "Sorry, you have been   
   >>> blocked" message from Cloudflare. At the bottom of the page it says "The   
      
   []   
      
   >> In Spain the Football League is actively blocking many IPs (with court   
   >> orders), which happens to be Cloudflare sites, which are thus blocked.   
   >>   
   >> The reason for the blocking is that they try to block sites that   
   >> broadcast football matches without paying them. But they are blocking   
   >> lots of innocent sites.   
   >>   
   >> Complaints by Cloudflare or those sites are ignored, because there is a   
   >> valid court order.   
   >>   
   >> This is a dirty war.   
   >>   
   >> Are you caught by this?   
   >>   
   Don't _think_ this (my problem above) has anything to do with football.   
      
   >   
   > I've noticed that recently I have seeing CloudFlare "prove you are a human"   
   showing   
   > up on many sites where it has never in the past.   
   >   
   > What's going on?   
   >   
   > Did they absorb business from Akamai or some other competitor?   
   >  Either way, it's a PITA.   
   >   
   >   
   I don't mind the "tick to show you are a human", or even the "pick   
   pictures showing ..." as long as it doesn't reload too many times. But   
   the "you have been blocked" message comes up as soon as I try to go to   
   the sites in question - before I've even been given any "prove.." tests.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   G B Shaw said: "Few people think more than two or three times a year; I   
   have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or   
   twice a week." (quoted by "Dont Bother" [sic], 2015-8-24.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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