Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

(torrentfreak.com)

234 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.766s | 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.

pmdr ◴[15 Jul 25 16:13 UTC] No.44572683[source]▶

> PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser.

And get to solve a dozen whack-a-mole intentionally-slow-loading reCAPTCHAs just to see the page, or worse, end up in a Cloudflare redirect loop.

1. tracker1 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44573371[source]▶

I get enough of that between Brave Browser and using Linux as my desktop OS.

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2. mhitza ◴[15 Jul 25 17:14 UTC] No.44573496[source]▶

They don't show up significantly more often for me than in Brave browser.

Though at that point might as well use Tor in Brave, because the additional ad&trackers blockers improves drastically the load times.

Now, if only Brave would go the extra mile of having the Tor browser window better mimick the Tor Browser.

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3. tracker1 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:47 UTC] No.44573876[source]▶

I've got PiHole and a couple extensions installed that block more than Brave itself does. Not really into Tor, but I did try it a couple times.