FYI I just tried to read your blog but I’m getting the: “Sorry, you have been blocked” banner from CF.

(Safari w. an adblocker, VPN off )

I find it incredible that people are willing to outsource the decision on who can access their sites to a corporation. Especially one that is increasingly dominant and tends toward worrying control (they also started selling paid search services for bots to use, presumably those provider will get access).

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abirch 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blocked chrome incognito no ad blockers. Here's my Ray ID: a4c6da0b3b6b4257

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Bender 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here, Firefox with ublock Origin and NoScript.

On the topic of caching I run my own edge nodes, no regrets. Privacy maintained, finer grained controls, no large scale ddos protection but I have never needed it.

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DrewCarlson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I checked just for fun, also blocked. Could be because I'm in India, but even with CF warp, still blocked..

I do enjoy some of the free cloudflare services for personal projects, but to act like they provide some great infallible business structure or services is ridiculous.

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MattBlissett 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are any sites you'd expect to be on paid-for Cloudflare also blocked?

I put https://www.gbif.org/ behind Cloudflare on the business plan, and so far (it's been roughly a year) we've only had a couple of reports of blocking, and both seemed likely to be caused by other users on the same IP scraping the site.

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		I can access gbif.org with and without WARP from here. Sometimes sites like hubspot block me without WARP, but it's usually small blogs or technical project sites that give me trouble. So it could have to do with free vs paid plans being more aggressive with default rules.

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felixg3 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I got blocked when visiting from Germany. MobileSafari.

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epolanski an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

But it's cool /s

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nullpoint420 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here. Firefox, USA.