Minionz t1_it0ieop wrote on October 20, 2022 at 1:15 AM

Reply to comment by Hrmbee in EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers by Hrmbee

or Easylist could block users from India, at least temporarily.

aykay55 t1_it0oel0 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:00 AM

That’s not the issue anymore, because Cloudflare discovered that EasyList is also in violation the TOS. They can’t continue doing what they were doing before.

Rebles t1_it0wiz3 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:02 AM

How were they in violation of the TOS?

aykay55 t1_it1bmlr wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:33 AM

did you read the linked article? CloudFlare doesn’t allow for only TXT files to be served, they require meaningful web content to be hosted on their servers

OffgridRadio t1_it13wuz wrote on October 20, 2022 at 4:09 AM

so how does TPB continue to exist?

aykay55 t1_it1brav wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:34 AM

I don’t know how their site works but it probably isn’t hosted on a popular cloud platform that cares about what customers do with their servers.

nyaaaa t1_it1oy34 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:39 AM

Or they could block subsequent downloads for some hours if a ip already grabbed the file.