VPNs will help. The article is only talking about VPN servers based in a location with a geo ban, which, duh. But if you actually use your VPN to be in a different country and not just a different city it’ll work fine.
Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help
Submitted 4 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I’d say that the title here is clickbait. The author is working awfully hard to try to frame the issue in the article in such a way that they can write that title.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The editorialized title makes it sound like they made a decision and it wasn’t because of a court order.
Actual article title: “Cloudflare cracks down on UK piracy – and VPN users are getting caught in the crossfire”
Not much better, but it is better than the OP’s title.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Usually Cloudflare fights (successfully) against the orders, laying the responsibility with ISPs. This marks a change in corporate policy.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
they don’t just whimsically decide on a daily basis whether or not to comply with court orders. something changed legally that caused them to take action.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That assumes they didn’t fight and lose this time.
natecox@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
The title here is misleading.
Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.
“Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.
We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.