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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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Spivak ◴[15 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44572983[source]▶
Tor is great but wouldn't an easier and higher bandwidth (for the yarr harr) solution to just buy any VPN service that exits outside of the UK?
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GoblinSlayer ◴[15 Jul 25 19:22 UTC] No.44574856[source]▶
VPNs are yet another Cloudflare and are next in line to implement censorship.
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Spivak ◴[15 Jul 25 19:38 UTC] No.44575014[source]▶
They very well could be, but I doubt they remain in business for very long were they compelled to block the raison d'etre people use them.
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immibis ◴[16 Jul 25 16:54 UTC] No.44584427{3}[source]▶
The choice will be between going out of business and going to jail. They'll choose to go out of business. I've noticed that HN users often think businesses have some obligation to be infinitely sustainable - they do not. They just need to be sustainable long enough to recoup their setup costs.
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GoblinSlayer ◴[17 Jul 25 08:00 UTC] No.44590856{4}[source]▶
Cloudflare doesn't go out of business, neither will vpns.
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1. immibis ◴[17 Jul 25 13:43 UTC] No.44593331{5}[source]▶
Cloudflare doesn't do things that send them to jail, like ignoring court orders. They'll log whatever the court tells them to log.

Cloudflare does plenty of sketchy stuff, like deliberately hosting DDoS-for-hire sites because it increases the demand for anti-DDoS products. But they will take them down if they are ordered to - and reveal their origin IP. They are not going to jail for you.