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Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia?

4•ruslankh•2h ago
For the last couple of months, about a 1/5 of links on HN are inaccessible from Russia because site owners block this traffic. I have a suspicion that they don't even know that. Especially, when it happens on Claudflare side. That's kinda sad. And I wonder why that's happening.

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bigyabai•1h ago
> I wonder why that's happening.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-inf...

ruslankh•1h ago
Sure, but that happens on personal blogs and small websites. And speaking of sanctions, why does Google work perfectly fine?
The_suffocated•50m ago
A wild guess: perhaps it was the Russian authority, not the site owners, who blocked the traffic. Collective action is usually inefficient. If something suddenly happens in a large scale, more often than not it is caused by a few influential entities.
mooiedingen•48m ago
Imho it is sad that it is happening!, However in many cases it is just a DNS level ban which has been put in place by governments.

That means in a country like mine Belgium where government controls DNS through an entity DNS-Belgium they make it act as the GFW for both incomming as outgoing traffic.

For one that knows what that means, One knows how to bypass this which is as simple as letting another provider resolve DNS...

Since i use DNS to also block a shtload of advertisements, i have built in a whole list of resolvers which i tested to check if they censor.

The one i can think of my head that doesn't block is quad9: 9.9.9.9 & 149.112.112.112 one thats simply configures the earlier mentionned ip addresses to resolve his DNS queries shall will be able to reach Russian based sites again.

For a Solution from in Russia one can look at proxies,vpns,.. but i do not know what works from there for i am stuck in this sh

tty country over here :(

I hope this will resolve soon, if you want me to try and help you, i am always willing to do my best, just let me know

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