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Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare now
by thrdbndndn 3y ago
Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I've seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites.
I'm talking about https://www.caseys.com https://www.caseys.com in this article, which gives me
Access denied
Error code 1020
You do not have access to www.caseys.com.
The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site."
Is this a GDPR measure (but My IP is in Japan, not EU), anti-proxy measure (I do use one), or cost-saving measure?
- foooobaba 3y agoWell, Casey’s is not actually smallish, it’s a fortune 500 company publicly traded on NASDAQ (CASY) and has a market cap of over 9 billion.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoI guess that makes it even worse. Large companies surely want people around the world to visit their websites for brand recognition even if they don't operate in their regions.
- evrimoztamur 3y agoThis, I believe, is the free DDoS guard that people opt into because it's free.
- weekay 3y agoThis really is a hard stop being applied on Cloudflare WAF rules to stop any traffic from geo locations a sys admin believes would stop threats and also reduce their bandwidth utilisation. If companies don’t have business interest outside or their territory/ country the new trend seems to be just geo block that domain. While https://investor.caseys.com/ https://investor.caseys.com/ is accessible from Europe for eg., the main site isn’t . This isn’t a GDPR thing just a playbook some of the cyber security and ops team seem to be applying across various retail companies now a days .
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