Here's a #VPN experiment for you...
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Here's a #VPN experiment for you...
1. Select #Chicago as your VPN's connection endpoint.
2. Go to https://deviantart.com
3. Find out your page request is blocked by #Cloudflare
4. Reselect a new endpoint to Toronto, CA
5. Reload your blocked browser
6. Hmmmm - weird, huh?
Why do I get the feeling we're being punked, or is this just a prelude to more GOP web nonsense? Why DeviantArt, you may ask? I wanted to see something there, and got curious... otherwise, I have no clue why.
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Here's a #VPN experiment for you...
1. Select #Chicago as your VPN's connection endpoint.
2. Go to https://deviantart.com
3. Find out your page request is blocked by #Cloudflare
4. Reselect a new endpoint to Toronto, CA
5. Reload your blocked browser
6. Hmmmm - weird, huh?
Why do I get the feeling we're being punked, or is this just a prelude to more GOP web nonsense? Why DeviantArt, you may ask? I wanted to see something there, and got curious... otherwise, I have no clue why.
@lumiworx I'm not on a VPN but I am in Chicago, and I was able to open deviant art just fine.
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@lumiworx I'm not on a VPN but I am in Chicago, and I was able to open deviant art just fine.
Yeah, I don't suspect a standard route would be affected by this kind of block. This is explicitly tied to VPN routing checks, and the reason I find this so odd.
I can only assume someone has put in a rule set somewhere that filters against a list of known IP's, or browser signatures, or similar, but the question then seems to be... why, and why specifically that site...?
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Yeah, I don't suspect a standard route would be affected by this kind of block. This is explicitly tied to VPN routing checks, and the reason I find this so odd.
I can only assume someone has put in a rule set somewhere that filters against a list of known IP's, or browser signatures, or similar, but the question then seems to be... why, and why specifically that site...?
@lumiworx could be that someone was misbehaving with that particular vpn endpoint