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> any site using that will have URLs containing 'camel' blocked

What engineer at cloudflare thought this was a good resolution?

Raed667 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

keithwhor 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.

	▲	dgfitz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Me too.

ycombinatrix 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Akamai has been doing precisely that for years & years...

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	▲	benoau 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think you can include advertising/privacy block lists in that vein too, although that allows for the users to locally-correct any issues.

Judging by previous outages it was probably a poorly tested overcomplicated regex which matched to much.

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