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internetter
439 days ago
> any site using that will have URLs containing 'camel' blocked
What engineer at cloudflare thought this was a good resolution?
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Raed667
439 days ago
I doubt the system is that simple. No one wrote a rule saying `if url.contains("camel") then block()` it's probably an unintended side-effect
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keithwhor
439 days ago
If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.
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dgfitz
439 days ago
Me too.
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ycombinatrix
439 days ago
Akamai has been doing precisely that for years & years...
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benoau
439 days ago
I think you can include advertising/privacy block lists in that vein too, although that allows for the users to locally-correct any issues.
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isbvhodnvemrwvn
438 days ago
Judging by previous outages it was probably a poorly tested overcomplicated regex which matched to much.
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