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by carlosbaraza 123 days ago
I have commented this in multiple occasions. What is happening here in Spain with LaLiga is just absurd. My company's domain gets blocked often because we use CloudFlare. In essence, any service using CloudFlare gets blocked often. The main problem is that the common Joe tries to navigate and finds that it doesn't work, and they blame their network, and when they come back two hours later after the game finished, the website works, so they move on. The only way for this to get resolved is if they blocked something critical and an accident happened because of that (e.g. hospital services, traffic control, or something like that). Eventually this will escalate to national courts (currently this was dictated by a regional court in Barcelona). But again, legal action is extremely slow. VPNs are becoming a must everywhere, because the Internet is becoming wild from all directions.
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egorfine 123 days ago
> What is happening here in Spain with LaLiga is just absurd

So what? I don't see crowds protesting on the streets of Barcelona. People are compliant, unfortunately.

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carlosbaraza 122 days ago
My point is that people don't understand nor know that this is happening at all. Even when I get customers complaining that the service isn't available, they don't believe that their ISP is blocking them because of football. It's almost unbelievable for how absurd it sounds that people don't even think that could be the reason.
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hulitu 123 days ago
> My company's domain gets blocked often because we use CloudFlare.

Then don't use it. When I want to go to "example.com", I want "example.com", not Cloudfare, a "mafia organization" which is "protecting" "example.com".

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anthk 123 days ago
The Mafia here it's LaLiga and Tebas.
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hdgvhicv 123 days ago
Cloudflare is the outfit which offers protection, however they are failing to protect their customers.
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bdavbdav 123 days ago
What would you suggest they did in this case, advertise a false AS/ ranges?
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carlosbaraza 122 days ago
Cloudflare offers some genuinely valuable services that protect you from exposing your infrastructure to the world wild web. And regardless why does a private institution like LaLiga have the power to censor anything they want for their own benefit?
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