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  • Space Catitude 🚀TerryHancock@realsocial.life
    Jun 26, 2026, 4:48 PM

    Well, shit.

    My ISP blocks half of Europe's websites, because apparently they have the entire fricking Hetzner cloud blocked.

    But now that I use a Squid proxy to get around the ISP's bullshit, Cloudflare blocks me from accessing websites, because accessing from a Digital Ocean IP is suspect or something.

    Remember when the fricking web had "web sites" and we had "web browsers" and they just fricking WORKED..?

    Now, all this paranoid bullshit is just splitting the web up and disconnecting us all.

    This sucks.

    [EDIT: it seems I need to clarify that I'm being hyberbolic -- it's not *literally* all of Hetzner. It's just that blocked sites keep turning out to be on the Hetzner cloud in Germany or Finland, when I investigate. The guy just has an overly-aggressive IP block list, as does Cloudflare]

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  • Space Catitude 🚀TerryHancock@realsocial.life
    Jun 26, 2026, 4:55 PM

    I know that this isn't strictly malicious. These are defensive measures to deal with badly-behaved spammers, offensive DDOS attacks, and scraper bots.

    I get it. I also run websites. But the result is a toxic, broken web.

    And that makes me sad and somewhat afraid of the consequences of us going down this path.

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