From my experience with Cloudflare, hard blocks are either caused by something that is similar to known exploits or by the site operator blocking countries/ip ranges. Everything else it's the annoying captcha or the less annoying "managed challenge" (usually a quick check before loading the page or a request to manually click a box).

I'm blocked on Firefox on Ubuntu 25.04, on a German residential FTTH line, and I'm also blocked with Firefox and Chrome on Android 15 over 5G.

For me it's just visiting the site from my phone with a very typical German network provider (o2). Just followed the hacker news link ...

Likely country blocks in this case, can't have the mean Europeans read the precious content. Works fine with a US VPN (bad IP reputation), doesn't work with my german local provider (good IP reputation).

Works fine from Norway, so probably not a country block. Site blocking EU usually block Norway as well.

Working in the UK too. Also works with a VPN via Portugal, France, Netherlands, and Denmark. Only got blocked when accessing via Brazil.

Same here. My German IP is blocked.

No idea. Vanilla desktop and mobile Safari, cable and 5G, all blocked.

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