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by swapfile 1136 days ago
You gotta love it when a site called "techfreedom" black holes Tor exit node IPs. I can only access this site through web proxies.
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LinuxBender 1136 days ago
That is ironic. Here [1] is an alternate link.

[1] - https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/ea...

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btdmaster 1136 days ago
archive.is kind of has the same issue, so maybe the Web Archive is better. [2]

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfr...

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LinuxBender 1136 days ago
Are they also blocking Tor?
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btdmaster 1136 days ago
They request a (JavaScript) captcha completion every time I've checked.
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LinuxBender 1136 days ago
Odd. I have never enabled Javascript for archive.is, especially since with it enabled they have some resource link to mail.ru and since I block .ru on my DNS it times out. The lack of requiring Javascript is the reason I use that site. I have both uBlock and NoScript blocking javascript.
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stasmo 1136 days ago
Tor exit nodes are abused as tools for DDOS attacks. We had to block them too.
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isoos 1136 days ago
To be fair, tor is a really crappy network to orchestrate a DDOS attack. On the other hand some sites just can't take much traffic, especially if it is a consistent inflow of requests. It may be that somebody just used tor as a proxy to crawl your website and it crumbled.

I happen to speculate this because I may have used tor for web crawling, which may have caused a specific site to crash before I cut back the crawl rate. Punishing tor for such incident is mostly FUD.

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Cthulhu_ 1136 days ago
Sounds like people abused the tech to the point they had to take action. This is one reason we can't have nice things.
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