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Comment by OptionOfT

1 year ago

A good amount of these websites are proxied by Cloudflare, so you're connecting to CF and CF connects to the website.

And many websites use CF, so if you were to block a CF IP, you'd block a whole bunch of websites.

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derekp7  1 year ago

In that case, what makes Cloudflare immune to court ordered blocks?

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