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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notatoad on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:33PM (#45067035)
It wouldn’t stop anyone. The bots you want to block already operate out of places where those laws wouldn’t be enforced.
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by qbane on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:51PM (#45067279)
Then that is a good reason to deny the requests from those IPs
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by literalAardvark on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:21PM (#45067652)
I've run a few hundred small domains for various online stores with an older backend that didn't scale very well for crawlers and at some point we started blocking by continent.

It's getting really, really ugly out there.

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by account42 on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:10AM (#45091305)
If that was the case then I am I getting buttflare-blocked here in the EU.
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