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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: 0.001s | source
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Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44572211[source]▶
Previously, a convenient and low-latency way to bypass UK internet censorship was to proxy via a local datacentre - it's only the residential ISPs that are under pressure to censor traffic, commercial ones less so.

But if the blocking is happening somewhere other than the ISP, this is less effective. A hypothetical TPB user might want to proxy via Luxembourg now (seems like the shortest hop to somewhere with sane legislation)

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trollied ◴[15 Jul 25 15:40 UTC] No.44572305[source]▶
You didn’t even need to do that. Just needed an /etc/hosts entry for the domain.
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Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44572381[source]▶
My ISP (Virgin Media) does DNS filtering and IP-based blocking and TLS SNI inspection. So you have to use ESNI or domain fronting, which last time I checked my browser could not be easily configured to do.
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1. acheong08 ◴[15 Jul 25 18:22 UTC] No.44574295[source]▶
At this point, what's the difference between the UK and China other than the specific content they block? Some ISPs have even started blocking wireguard here & I've had to resort back to xray/v2ray
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2. Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 18:41 UTC] No.44574468[source]▶
Very little difference. But blocking wireguard is huge change, which ISPs are doing that?
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3. acheong08 ◴[15 Jul 25 23:40 UTC] No.44577097[source]▶
I currently live in student accommodation so not sure what they're using upstream. The university network also drops wireguard connections but only to known providers like Mullvad (assuming obfuscation is off)