So I am working, I need to check this open source software documentation and I get this message.
It basically says Internet Service Providers are forced to block Cloudflare IP addresses as LaLiga claims it is used to illegally stream the soccer games.
People shouldn’t use Cloudflare for everything anyway, it unnecessarily centralises the internet and blocks Tor and VPNs
Cloudflare works perfectly fine with VPN.
But browser plugins to fuck with the fingerprint don’t.
I would call this more than just mildly infuriating. Every time there is soccer, a big part of the Internet stops working for me (including my own Netxcloud and Matrix instances, which I am proxing via Cloudflare).
Italian here: one Saturday I start to get lots of downtime notifications
I don’t understand what’s happening, because they come and go, I get hundreds of them
I connect to the server, waste four hours, everything looks ok but pages don’t load? Weird?
I go to sleep without solving the problem
The morning everything looks fine, so I can go to my self hosted news reader and I discover in my feeds that the FUCKING soccer league blocked cloudflare “accidentally”
The best part of our system is that if the block isn’t disputed within a week, then the IP address is permanently banned. Can it be more stupid than that? Do they really think that pirates won’t change their ip address?
We gave the keys of our internet to two litigious copyright trolls
And this exclusively harms honest people because pirates just use a VPN. I saw pirate websites that when accessed from an Italian IP address have some legitimate content, need to access from a VPN. So the block is completely useless
Stremio.
I don’t give two shits about football or anyone pirating it, the problem is that they block a bunch of websites that have nothing to do with that. They had a similar idea last year when they wanted to completely block telegram in the whole country because some degenerates were sharig cp using the platform. The scorched earth policies are not just mildly annoying.
