Comment by benhurmarcel
20 days ago
Sometimes it doesn’t even give you a Captcha.
I have come across some websites that block me using Cloudflare with no way of solving it. I’m not sure why, I’m in a large first-world country, I tried a stock iPhone and a stock Windows PC, no VPN or anything.
That’s just no way to know.
That’s probably a page/site rule set by the website owner. Some sites block EU IPs as the costs of complying with GDPR outweigh the gain.
I saw GDPR related blockage like literally twice in a few years and I connect from EU IP almost all the time
Overload of captcha is not about GDPR...
but the issue is strange. @benhurmarcel I would check if there is somebody or some company nearby abusing stuff and you got under the hammer. Maybe unscrupulous VPN company. Using a good VPN can in fact make things better (but will cost money) or if you have a place to put your own all the better. otherwise check if you can change your IP with provider or change providers or move I guess...
not to excuse CF racket but as this thread shows the data hungry artificial stupidity leaves no choice to some sites
I found it's best to use VPSes from young and little known hosting companies, as their IP is not yet on the blacklists.
Does it work only based on the IP?
I also tried from a mobile 4G connection, it’s the same.
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One of the affected websites is a local cafe in the EU. It doesn’t make any sense to block EU IPs.