Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by medellin on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:38PM
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Being in another country trying to access some things in the US i get blocked all the time. It lead me to canceling one of the services because i got sick or playing the vpn game
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:19AM
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i can imagine.. i have the same problem in reverse. i don't use a vpn because then I'm always flagged by cloudflare. very annoying
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by donkeyd on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:40AM
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It is indeed. With CGNAT becoming more prevalent with the shortage of IPV4, this is starting to get really annoying. I'm actually switching providers to one that doesn't use CGNAT for this exact reason.
It would be really nice if IPV6 one day actually becomes default so we no longer have to mess around with this stuff.
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by tick_tock_tick on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:23AM
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> Cloudflare is often blocking legitimate access to its customers' Web sites
Cloudflare allows customers to configuring blocking and captchas which is very different.
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by dredmorbius on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:18AM
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Cloudflare are also curiously opaque on just what the case and nature of the content addressed by the Austrian court was.
(I'd noted this the first time I'd read the blog post a couple of weeks ago.)
This is a little poetic. :)
Cloudflare is often blocking legitimate access to its customers' Web sites, sometimes triggered by browser privacy&security settings and blocker rulesets, sometimes triggered by using Tor exit nodes.
I wonder whether Cloudflare customers are aware of this (or does it just show up in metrics of "bad" requests/hosts they've blocked), and whether the customers would prefer that those users could access.
From a privacy and security perspective, I wonder whether Cloudflare often blocking a user from accessing a site they want to access encourages people to disable privacy and security measures?