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Re:Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users by ranger_danger on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:36PM (#44578448)
If requests to their DNS servers were being denied, would you call that blocking?
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Re:Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users by gpm on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:17AM (#44578625)
Are they themselves denying DNS requests whose purpose was to assist in communicating with them? No. They are just choosing not to communicate with whomever sent the request.

Otherwise, probably yes.

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