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

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Post by wildylion »

bbminner wrote: post #28
proxysna wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-co…

Try to get a middle hop somewhere at a russian datacenter. Sometimes these have DPI censorship boxes disabled (?) -- I know one that lets me forward simple Wireguard from mobile routers to a EU server with a few SNAT/DNAT rules, even though ordinarily that would get blocked at first sight.

(Sadly, it's just Mikrotik gear that can't use any fancy censorship evasion protocols).

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

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Post by johnisgood »

iberator wrote: post #65
elvin_d wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel your take will be taken down soon as it’s not the place for such discussion. Just food for thought: what makes you to feel so entitled to judge people place of living? You know how we are not choosing where to be born and our mobility is restricted a lot of times? Is your separation for man and women comes from religion or other bias to categorize them?

Russia is our enemy. Simple as that. It's bizarre to allow those people in the west (everybody suddenly is a refugee which is fake) .

The Russian government or the Russian people?

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

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Post by viktoresku »

In addition to the obvious growth in popularity of VPNs, there are two other subtle points:

1. Many Russian IP addresses are now registered to foreign offshore companies to avoid confiscation in the next package of EU sanctions. Being Russian, they were registered through RIPE, which created a risk. The same IP which was Russian a year ago, now can be listed as Madlovian or Magnolian remaining physically in Russia.

2. Cloudflare is a biased internet: the most traffic-heavy sites using Cloudflare are porn sites. That is, we can only draw conclusions here about changes in the structure of porn content consumption in Russia. High-traffic western websites censored in Russia - LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, ... - are not on Cloudflare anyway and their blockade does not contribute to this chart.

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

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Post by gridder »

iberator wrote: post #63
_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.

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Survivorship bias

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

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Post by tryauuum »

iberator wrote: post #63
_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.

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Maybe you should redirect your hate towards the thing you can influence -- your own government who supposedly "lets too many fake refugees in".

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

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Post by dang »

iberator wrote: post #63
_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.

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

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Post by OCTAGRAM »

moralestapia wrote: post #35
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…

What do they use, instead? It's not like they don't want any videos online.

+ Dzen Video

YouTube is easily accelerated via DPI bypass. It used to work with CloudFlare too, but not anymore, so CloudFlare is banned more hard than YouTube. With DPI bypass YouTube is very fast.

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

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Post by OCTAGRAM »

viktoresku wrote: post #73

In addition to the obvious growth in popularity of VPNs, there are two other subtle points: 1. Many Russian IP addresses are now registered to foreign offshore companies to avoid confiscation in the next package of EU sanctions. Being Russian, they were registered through RIPE, which created a risk. The same IP which was Russian a year ago, now can be listed as Madlovian or Magnolian remaining physically in Russia. 2…

Discord is on CloudFlare

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

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Post by moi2388 »

OCTAGRAM wrote: post #78
viktoresku wrote: post #73

In addition to the obvious growth in popularity of VPNs, there are two other subtle points: 1. Many Russian IP addresses are now registered to foreign offshore companies to avoid confiscation in the next package of EU sanctions. Being Russian, they were registered through RIPE, which created a risk. The same IP which was Russian a year ago, now can be listed as Madlovian or Magnolian remaining physically in Russia. 2…

Discord is on CloudFlare

So discord is porn /s

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

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Post by OCTAGRAM »

mandeepj wrote: post #47
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…

VPNs didn't help?

Far not everybody cares to use them
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