▲ | iknowstuff 4 days ago | |||||||
They block them during games only? Lmao thats some insane lobbying | ||||||||
▲ | otherme123 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
They do, and they deny they are doing it. The thing works like this: Telefonica owns Movistar, who has the rights to soccer matches. A few webpages offer pirated streams to those matches, behind Cloudflare. Telefonica call the judges and hand them the Cloudflare IP (shared by thousands of sites), who are obviously ignorant about how internet works, through a special "urgent" protocol. As soon as Telefonica has the judge OK, they stop serving Cloudflare, affecting thousands. Their support forums start to boil, but they deny any issue. As soon as the match ends, Cloudflare is back again. This only affects Telefonica and O2 clients. Some business are really angry because they claim their peak hour of the week is during the matches (e.g. wife buying online while husband watch the match) | ||||||||
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