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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

(torrentfreak.com)
234 points gloxkiqcza | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.687s | source
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specproc ◴[15 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44571969[source]▶
The site suggests that VPNs may be effected. What's the mechanism here? Is this likely to cause trouble for all VPNs?
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1. grumpyinfosec ◴[15 Jul 25 15:22 UTC] No.44572120[source]▶
realistically blocking low cost personal VPNs / proxies is pretty easy. Any new servers they stand up are gonna get picked up by commercial threat intel services with an hour and then just blocked. Especially if the CDNs are working with the government.

You could roll your own but wireguard/openvpn going to random hosting provider is gonna achieve the same thing if they are playing hardball.

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2. pjc50 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44572208[source]▶
They're not playing hardball, it's all on a "will this do" basis, like the US state-level bans. They're certainly not going to start blocking random IPs in hosting providers, that's reserved for email spammers.