XPost: alt.windows7.general, alt.computer.workshop   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   pothead  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Problem is what was designed as a fully distributed network has ended up   
   being centralised around a few single points of failure. Look at the   
   crowdstrike, AWS and cloudflare outages in the last year or so. The   
   internet is not as robust as it once was.   
      
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