Comment by ivanmontillam
4 months ago
> It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns.
I don't know if you said this sarcastically, but I have a friend in Switzerland who reads U.S. news websites via Web Archive or Archive IS exactly because of that.
Accessing some of these news sites returns CloudFlare's "not available" in your region message or similar.
It's not just the EU; I'm in a poorer region outside the EU and seeing "not available in your region" is quickly becoming the norm. Site administrators try to cut down on bot traffic (scraping, vulnerability scanners, denial of service, etc) and block whole regions they're not interested in.
Hell, we do that ourselves, but only for our own infrastructure that isn't expected to be used outside the county. Whitelisting your own country and blocking everything else cuts out >99% of scrapers and script kiddies.
No sarcasm. I totally understand why a local news website in the US would just block since its irrelevant for them any traffic from outside the country and they're have little resources. I don't judge them from blocking.
Fact is that its very unlikely they would ever face any issues about having it not blocked.
So much for the "world wide" web.