From e817e456074e8729d15c59d9ee526503727a2bd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martijn Gonlag Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 14:30:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- PEOPLE.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/PEOPLE.md b/PEOPLE.md index 6bae526882..c7991eb531 100644 --- a/PEOPLE.md +++ b/PEOPLE.md @@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ Correcting the wrongs of CloudFlare entails some unfair discrimination against c +- Chances are you're running a VPN or something else which flags your IP to the Cloudflare protecting the government website. Not a lot of people need access to citizen specific web pages on Iraqi domains, hence the locked down nature to protect the websites from attack ([iraqbasic](https://twitter.com/IraqBasic/status/1390294780391804929)) - Baghdad government servers are rickety, incapable of withstanding DDOS attack (when an attacker intentionally overloads a website with automated traffic). Ministries won't pay for protection from services like Cloudflare, so requiring a captcha for all traffic is their solution. ([dmbenes](https://twitter.com/DMBenes/status/1390259870683877378)) - wanted to keep watching anime on crunchy, only to get an error message that I'm apparently in China. (obvs not) turns out its a cloudflare issue... I didn't even know they could mess up geolocation like that so bad XD ([goodnightiluka](https://twitter.com/goodnightiluka/status/1387460165834706945)) - why do you keep putting me into these redirect loops for your DDoS protection? It's just me and my hands operating a browser. Happened twice in the last couple of weeks on two different sites. ([icymidnight](https://twitter.com/IcyMidnight/status/1390166121337163777))