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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | 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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jchw ◴[15 Jul 25 15:39 UTC] No.44572288[source]▶
I don't actually use Reddit or Twitter, but I sometimes come across NSFW posts from links. I've found that old.reddit.com seems to allow you to bypass the filter(s) without needing an account. For Twitter, I tend to use the xcancel.com Nitter instance, though there are other Nitter instances that work fine.

Bonus for using Nitter here, you can also see the latest posts from an account instead of the most popular posts, and see replies/interactions to individual tweets. Oh, and it gives you plain HTML.

Reddit pisses me off so much that despite the fact that I don't even use Reddit, just so that my experience sucks less when I'm linked to Reddit or have another reason to lurk it,

- I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension to force the browser to go to old reddit

- I use the "Load Reddit Images Directly" extension to bypass Reddit's hideous image viewer that tries to load if your browser makes the mistake of having text/html in the "Accept" headers when opening an image in a new tab. (Dear Firefox/Chrome/etc: maybe stop doing that? If I open an image in a new tab, there is a zero percent chance I want HTML.)

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peterpost2 ◴[15 Jul 25 16:24 UTC] No.44572838[source]▶
The bypass via old.reddit.com stopped working today as well.
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Normal_gaussian ◴[15 Jul 25 16:46 UTC] No.44573158[source]▶
I just googled 'top nsfw Reddit' and aside from some disturbing implications of 'top' all opened fine with 'old.'. The IP is UK based, is coming up as UK on all geoip sites I tried and is in all of the last 30days of maxmind as UK based.

It might be some kind of phased rollout of course.

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1. jchw ◴[15 Jul 25 16:50 UTC] No.44573209[source]▶
Oops, I should note that I'm a U.S. citizen in a state without any porn age gate laws. I have no idea what the status of using old.reddit.com to bypass the NSFW filter is in other jurisdictions, or honestly even my own (not sure how to test it.) All I know for sure is that it worked last time I tried it.