> > Also, the same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking > a single Cloudflare site, also prevents me, as a network > administrator, in the privacy of my own home, from blocking ads and > other undesirable resources throughout the entirety of my home > network, on all devices, in bulk.
Strange, I do that on my home network and it works just fine. It's not a CDN's responsibility : A : To help a country enforce a law that was written without considering the technical ways in which it could be enforced B : To help if an improper technical solution is chosen that impacts other services as well On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > Not quite, because the entire Wikipedia in all languages is then > simply blocked, so, they're not even able to read any of the other > articles from Wikipedia either, in any language. This violates primal > protocol design principles of flexibility and resilience, business > continuity and backwards compatibility. > > Also, the same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking > a single Cloudflare site, also prevents me, as a network > administrator, in the privacy of my own home, from blocking ads and > other undesirable resources throughout the entirety of my home > network, on all devices, in bulk. > > And after the ability to do this network-wide blocking has been > removed, Cloudflare's partners are also slowly but surely removing the > ability to block said content within your own endpoint devices, too, > by removing all the ad-blockers from all the stores, and preventing > relevant API access from within the browser, too; plus making it a ToS > violation to alter website contents through a plug-in. Sorry, but > Cloudflare is not a good guy in this story. > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 18:20, <[email protected]> wrote: > > The same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking a > > single Cloudflare site also prevents dictators from murdering anyone in > > the country who edits their Wikipedia page unfavourably, so keep that in > > mind. > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IFL7UVWS3PJSINRHKIKB2RIAISMQGVFX/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HZPQJQE2BGPRKHAQLFP72NQPC7DLWZ4L/
