100TB of "Access Denied" replies per month, how many requests served is this?
This is hilarious in an unbelievably terrible and tragic way. The scale is mind boggling.
I wonder which browser it is.
EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
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#12> Even so, we continue to serve about 100TB of “Access Denied” pages monthly!
What's the carbon footprint of this?
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#13> There’s an open source Android browser (now seemingly abandoned) that implements ad-blocking functionality > The problem is that this browser has a very serious flaw. It tries to download filters updates on every startup, and on Android it may happen lots of times per day. It can even happen when the browser is running in the background EasyList should be offered as a version-controlled copy you grab once, that the…
Call me lazy but I’d just support an If-modified-since header in such a simple case and call it good
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#14A lazy/bad developer ruining something so many people depend on is incredibly annoying.
On the internet, popularity is sometimes indistinguishable from being targeted by a low-orbit ion cannon.
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#15I'm confused about the ToS comment by Cloudflare. The txt is on a website so it is a web content?
So robots.txt is not supported by Cloudflare to cache/proxy it? That would be a weird regulation. And I bet everyone violates the Cloudflare ToS then.
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#16Would DNS blocking be affected by this (I presume not since the lists are hardcoded)?
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#17I'm confused about the ToS comment by Cloudflare. The txt is on a website so it is a web content? So robots.txt is not supported by Cloudflare to cache/proxy it? That would be a weird regulation. And I bet everyone violates the Cloudflare ToS then.
Yeah... That just doesn't seem right. All web content is text...
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#18can they not block Indian IPs from cloudflare dashboard
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#19Phew. Is just a bandwidth issue. This goofy title made me think advertisers found a way around ad blockers.
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#20serve a modified version to rate limited IP's that only contains popular indian sites and I'm sure it'll be resolved in a day or two