XPost: alt.windows7.general, alt.computer.workshop
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-12-29, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> 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.
Agreed.
I haven't been blocked so far but that would really annoy me.
CloudFlare's reputation is somewhat jaded. They were responsible for the
massive outage a of month ago which affected many different platforms
and sites.
--
pothead
"No Kings" Protests.....
Brought to you by the party who anointed
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Let *that* sink in.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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