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Re:Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparen... by riedel on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:07PM (#32632068)
Seems that they just wanted to block some piracy sites like newalbumreleases.net if you compare the dates and check the IPs behind those domains. Wonder however if this actually enforced because I think there is no IP block and no reports from Austria about collateral damage (or am I wrong and Austria cannot complain because they are cut of from the internet)

Edit: btw, the domains added with date August 29 are already blocked in Germany and some other EU countries for a while: https://onlinefilter.info/cuii-dns-sperre/newalbumreleasesne... .

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Re:Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparen... by jonasdoesthings on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:37AM (#32635347)
> I think there is no IP block and no reports from Austria about collateral damage

There is definitely a good amount of collateral damage, not all ISPs rolled out the block already, but some did.

I myself noticed a lot of sites stopped working or fail to load scripts/external resources. On reddit r/austria there are also multiple complaints.

Most normal users probably just suspect their router/pc acting up. It took me a day too to get to the gist of this issue with sites not loading without tor.

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Re:Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparen... by riedel on Monday August 29, 2022 @08:43AM (#32637473)
Wow. Interesting. It seems that they finally became aware of the issue and corrected the block list linked in the OP.

Only media backlash and a shitstorm actually was able to correct this and it is unclear if all providers fixed this. Everyone is now blaming high court decision, local government and the EU. Wonder if anything will change.

Here is the verified story :https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000138619757/ueberzogene-n...

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Re:Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparen... by riedel on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:44PM (#32632381)
The strange thing is that this order is still not published (and has a date of tomorrow): https://www.rtr.at/TKP/aktuelles/entscheidungen/Uebersichtse...
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