Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
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Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
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Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
#2> Traffic shifts seen in some networks/locations due to phased integration of new IP geolocation provider
There's an event marker with a possible reason for it - which does make one wonder how bad the accuracy of the geolocation data is/was
Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
#3Likely reason: https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unabl...
In a nutshell:
Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to web services protected by Cloudflare have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
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I suspect it has as much to do with the government of russia blocking and banning vast swaths of the internet not cloudflare randomly blocking 40% of russian traffic.
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"Government censorship of websites is good because it reduces Cloudflare usage."
What a take... Only on HN.
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That's Roskomnadzor doing this, not Cloudflare.
Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Government censorship of websites is good because it reduces Cloudflare usage." What a take... Only on HN.
Yeah corporate censorship where your constitutional rights don’t apply is so much better.
But this isn't corporate censorship.
This is Russian government censorship. Where "constitutional rights" don't really apply, either. And probably quite a bit less sueable than Cloudflare.
Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
#10Can we conclude that this means the Great Firewall of russia is working and ~60% of population does not care?
Update: no. Russian people who care use VPN and thus are not counted as russian traffic.