ruslankh

Re:Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? on Monday November 17, 2025 @10:18AM (#45954325)

No, Russian authorities blocked just few critical sites and they all are listed in special registry. Internet is more or less freely available in Russia. The only big things they blocked are YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. And some specific media in Russian. Media in English like WSJ, NYT are freely available.

I'm talking about Cloudflare settings or other blockers.

Re:Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? 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.

Re:Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia? on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:22AM (#45951250)

Sure, but that happens on personal blogs and small websites. And speaking of sanctions, why does Google work perfectly fine?

Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia?

Posted by ruslankh on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For the last couple of months, about a 1/5 of links on HN are inaccessible from Russia because site owners block this traffic. I have a suspicion that they don't even know that. Especially, when it happens on Claudflare side. That's kinda sad. And I wonder why that's happening.

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