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Seems like an overreaction in some of these. Perhaps the people running them were close to the edge and more mental burden just pushes them over it. It's like
by guax 2y ago
Seems like an overreaction in some of these. Perhaps the people running them were close to the edge and more mental burden just pushes them over it.
It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns.
- whatshisface 2y agoFeel free to put a stop to it by buying liability insurance for all of these service providers, which you may have to persuade the underwriter should be free. ;-)
- ivanmontillam 2y ago> It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns. I don't know if you said this sarcastically, but I have a friend in Switzerland who reads U.S. news websites via Web Archive or Archive IS exactly because of that. Accessing some of these news sites returns CloudFlare's "not available" in your region message or similar.
- homebrewer 2y agoIt's not just the EU; I'm in a poorer region outside the EU and seeing "not available in your region" is quickly becoming the norm. Site administrators try to cut down on bot traffic (scraping, vulnerability scanners, denial of service, etc) and block whole regions they're not interested in. Hell, we do that ourselves, but only for our own infrastructure that isn't expected to be used outside the county. Whitelisting your own country and blocking everything else cuts out >99% of scrapers and script kiddies.
- guax 2y agoNo sarcasm. I totally understand why a local news website in the US would just block since its irrelevant for them any traffic from outside the country and they're have little resources. I don't judge them from blocking. Fact is that its very unlikely they would ever face any issues about having it not blocked.
- ryandrake 2y agoSo much for the "world wide" web.