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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.364s | source
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amiga386 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44571961[source]▶
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.

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1. Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 15:56 UTC] No.44572496[source]▶
Tor is great but the bandwidth/latency kinda sucks for casual browsing activity. A VPN is a more realistic workaround to this kind of geofencing.

I almost said "solution" instead of workaround, but of course the only actual solution is to fix the legislation.

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2. mike-cardwell ◴[15 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44572676[source]▶
It's actually pretty ok for casual browsing these days. Have you tried it recently?
3. ReaperCub ◴[15 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44573730[source]▶
> Tor is great but the bandwidth/latency kinda sucks for casual browsing activity

It is reasonably decent these days. Generally there are periods where Tor network is slow.

> A VPN is a more realistic workaround to this kind of geofencing

Generally I tend to use a combination of Tor / VPN depending on what I am doing. Some gossip sites have onion urls and I will use Tor if visiting those. Other sites that are geo-fenced (sites like Odysee) are easier to get to via VPN.

> I almost said "solution" instead of workaround, but of course the only actual solution is to fix the legislation.

That isn't going to get fixed anytime soon. In fact I expect it to get worse over time.