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1. guax+ib[view] [source] 2025-02-23 20:21:46
>>ColinW+(OP)
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.

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2. ivanmo+ie[view] [source] 2025-02-23 20:42:12
>>guax+ib
> 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.

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3. homebr+0f[view] [source] 2025-02-23 20:50:15
>>ivanmo+ie
It'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.

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