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rs_rs_rs_rs_rslast Thursday at 8:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wait, so this is why you're mad a Cloudflare? Because, you can't watch your pirated football game?


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conartist6last Thursday at 10:37 PM

To be clear people are mad about that because large portions of the legitimate internet go dark when football is on because they're running on a virtual server that happens to share an IP with another virtual server which is hosting pirated football.

You and I have no idea how often perfectly legal things we rely enjoy or rely on would go offline during football matches because it doesn't happen to us.

gonzalohmlast Thursday at 10:22 PM

I don't think you get it. They block Cloudfare IPs so services using Cloudfare become unreachable. I don't live in Spain anymore, but I have friends that can't access their university website while a soccer match is ongoing.

This shows the risks of centralizing internet access