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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

(torrentfreak.com)
234 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gonzalohm ◴[15 Jul 25 15:05 UTC] No.44571895[source]▶
Is this because the torrent sites are using cloudfare on their end? If so, seems like a simple solution
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Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44572098[source]▶
Torrent sites use Cloudflare to hide their origin IPs, among other things, so just not using it isn't an easy option.

Easier for torrent sites to tell people to use VPNs.

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