GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
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Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
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May be blocked because you are European ;-)
It works for me now.
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
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I don't understand how this post could reach HN just a few minutes after I published it... Whoever it did, thanks!
I decided to make a little change in the URL (Europeans instead of EU) and that's why there was a short period of 404 errors before I created the redirect.
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#5"Page not found"
I don't understand how this post could reach HN just a few minutes after I published it... Whoever it did, thanks! I decided to make a little change in the URL (Europeans instead of EU) and that's why there was a short period of 404 errors before I created the redirect.
working now. :)
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#6How this checks if a user is European when using US VPN or being on holidays outside EU?
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#7Considered this before, but it doesnt work. IIRC, the law applies to euro citizens both living in country and abroad. As such, geoip blocking is not a working strategy. (a french citizen who lives in japan still had GDPR rights) A better one would likely be a clickwrap agreement for all users stating "European citizens are not allowed on this service" which they have to click a "I am not european" tickbox to.
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#8I think the most important part about the post is at the very end:
> Please don’t take us seriously
> This is an example of all the things you can do with Cloudflare Workes and our API. If you like it, please spread the word! But hey, don’t take us seriously. We just wanted to take the drama out from all the GDPR madness out there.
Anyway: just for academic interest I’m curious how much this increases the overall request latency, as there would be one additional blocking HTTP call at the beginning. Do you have any benchmarks for that API call to check the blacklist?
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#9That works. YMMV but If you still want EU users here is what I did last night: https://medium.com/@riantogo/gdpr-band-aid-b619d0b17e5b
Re: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
#10Considered this before, but it doesnt work. IIRC, the law applies to euro citizens both living in country and abroad. As such, geoip blocking is not a working strategy. (a french citizen who lives in japan still had GDPR rights) A better one would likely be a clickwrap agreement for all users stating "European citizens are not allowed on this service" which they have to click a "I am not european" tickbox to.
I'm the author of the post, and yes: blocking 500 million geolocated people is crazy. That's not the spirit of the law.
I just wrote the post because if you want to overkill and you are lazy, you can follow our recipe to 'implement' GDPR. I just wanted to be sarcastic and also show how easy to implement Cloudworkers + Apility.io.