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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

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Post by proxysna »

_fat_santa wrote: post #17
tananaev wrote: post #13

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened…

I have family in Russia and it's a sad state of affairs. Our ability to communicate with them is slowly degrading to the point where now I am looking into self-hosted communications.

Look into vxray it works for my wife's family. AmneziaVPN worked for me during my last visit too.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by sourcegrift »

tananaev wrote: post #13

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened…

> youtube is slow

Maybe they're using Windows Phones?

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by ekropotin »

tananaev wrote: post #13

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened…

Russia seems to be executing CCP’s playbook. They even trying to push everyone to their version of WeChat, which is called Max.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by ogurechny »

Should be phrased as “Despite the ham-fisted bans, overheating DPI boxes, and propaganda (from both sides, and it is not always clear who is better at scaremongering), a lot of people learned to not give a fuck”.

Like, obviously, Instagram has been blocked for a long time, and, obviously, everyone who is obsessed with that social network keeps using it, including the rich kids of the top crooks (a.k.a. “the elites”) who can't miss a chance to drool over some dress they wore on a private concert of a Western pop star in Dubai (suspiciously never announced in media), and, obviously, the censors are making a fuss about it for the hundredth time, promising to fine anyone who does business there into oblivion to make users move to the competing local services that have been lobbying that under pretext of politically correct patriotic alignment.

I would advise everyone to familiarise yourself with tools like zapret. You'll need them sooner than you think.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by tzury »

I changed the URI to show the US data and was surprise by the fact Virginia surpassed California [1], so I looked into Virginia [2] and realized, mostly are automated bots from AWS and other US-East based region

1. https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/us?dateRange=52w 2. https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/6254928?dateRange=52w

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by ivankra »

VPNs are widespread in Russia, so they probably misattribute a good chunk of the traffic.

"By 2025, about 41% of Russian internet users were relying on VPNs — one of the highest adoption rates in the world." [1]

[1] https://cepa.org/article/blocked-and-bypassed-russians-evade...

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by throw-the-towel »

cataphract wrote: post #16
pavlov wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Government censorship of websites is good because it reduces Cloudflare usage." What a take... Only on HN.

You can celebrate the outcome even if you disagree with the means or the motivations.

Not to disrespect you personally, but as someone originally from Russia I'd argue the "cure" of state censorship is worse than the disease of centralisation.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by bbminner »

proxysna wrote: post #21
_fat_santa wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have family in Russia and it's a sad state of affairs. Our ability to communicate with them is slowly degrading to the point where now I am looking into self-hosted communications.

Look into vxray it works for my wife's family. AmneziaVPN worked for me during my last visit too.

To my surprise, even sophisticated means of traffic masking like amnezia and vxray get disrupted frequently, requiring hopping around self hosted solutions and updating ones setup periodically. That's waaay beyond what most people are capable of. I am fortunate to have some tech worker acquaintance who live next to my family members, otherwise there'd be no way for me to for example guide them through setup and re-configuration remotely. Still, this setup gets disrupted every month or so requiring manual intervention.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by bojan »

tananaev wrote: post #13

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened…

That explains why I can't seem to access VKontakte anymore from outside.

Not a huge loss as it rightfully suffers the same fate as Facebook, but still.

Re: Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

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Post by dragonwriter »

throw-the-towel wrote: post #27
cataphract wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can celebrate the outcome even if you disagree with the means or the motivations.

Not to disrespect you personally, but as someone originally from Russia I'd argue the "cure" of state censorship is worse than the disease of centralisation.

State censorship is a different kind of centralization.
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