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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: 0s | 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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blackhaj7 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44572325[source]▶
> Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. I have never used tor so novice question: why not?

> please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 Signed!

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kobalsky ◴[15 Jul 25 15:54 UTC] No.44572469[source]▶
> I have never used tor so novice question: why not?

bandwidth is a scarce resource on tor.

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staringback ◴[15 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44573111[source]▶
No it isn't. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html
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ac29 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:14 UTC] No.44573497[source]▶
Thats relay bandwidth, I assume exit node bandwidth is some fraction of that
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