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A comment on Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia?.

Re:Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? by jank199x on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:49AM (#45954066)
Too many bots.

My US East Coast VPS firewall logs are full of Russian and Ukrainian IPs. They are more numerous than Chinese, even.

I'm not sure the people behind them are all Russian and Ukrainian, though. My guess RU/UA IPs are just cheaper and easier to obtain by malicious actors.

AFAIK you better be using VPN living in Russia, anyway. Doesn't Russian govt block a ton of stuff from their side?

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Re:Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? by ruslankh on Monday November 17, 2025 @10:12AM (#45954278)
Great explanation, thanks! Speaking of government, the only critical things they blocked are YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. They also blocked some media in Russian, but they are basically propaganda just from other side. All media in English like NYT are freely available.
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